# 114-hr-1678: National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2015

114-hr-1678, National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2015, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8] (D-CA); status Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-1678
- Congress: 114
- Title: National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2015
- Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
- Introduced: 2015-03-26
- Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8] (D-CA)
- Cosponsors: 4
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2015 Directs the Department of Defense to provide for the establishment of a reliable land-based positioning, navigation, and timing system to complement and back up the global positioning system (GPS) to ensure the availability of uncorrupted or non-degraded signals for military and civilian users if GPS signals are corrupted, degraded, unreliable, or otherwise unavailable. Requires the system to: (1) be wireless, terrestrial, and wide-area; (2) provide a precise, high-power 100 kilohertz signal; (3) be able to penetrate underground and inside buildings; (4) take advantage of existing, unused government long-range navigation system (LORAN) infrastructure and work in concert with enhanced long-range navigation systems (eLORAN); and (5) incorporate private sector expertise.

## Cosponsors (4)

- Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50] (R-CA), 2015-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] (D-OR), 2015-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
- FRANK LOBIONDO (R-NJ), 2015-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9] (R-PA), 2015-06-18T00:00:00.000Z

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## Sources
- [114-hr-1678 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1678)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-1678 (as of 2025-11-18).