APPENDIX XVI

Defense Authorization Conference Report

SEC. 279 GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM.

a) CONDITIONAL PROHIBITION ON USE OF SELECTIVE AVAILABILITY. --- Except as provided in subsection (b), after May 1, 1996, the Secretary of Defense may not (through use of the feature known as "selective availability") deny access of non-Department of Defense users to the full capabilities of the Global Positioning System.

b) PLAN. --- Subsection (a) shall cease to apply upon submission by the Secretary of Defense to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives of a plan for enhancement of the Global Positioning System that provides for:

1. development and acquisition of effective capabilities to deny hostile military forces the ability to use the Global Positioning System without hindering the ability of United States military forces and civil users to have access to and use of the system.) together with a specific date by which those capabilities could be operational; and
2. development and acquisition of receivers for the Global Positioning System and other techniques for weapons and weapon systems that provide substantially improved resistance to jamming and other forms of electronic interference or disruption, together with a specific date by which those receivers and other techniques could be operational with United States military forces.