Strengthening National Resilience Through Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services
| Published date | 18 February 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 9359 |
| Record Number | 2020-03337 |
| Section | Presidential Documents |
| Court | Executive Office Of The President |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 32 (Tuesday, February 18, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 18, 2020)]
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Vol. 85
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February 18, 2020
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Executive Order 13905--Strengthening National Resilience Through
Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Services
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 85 , No. 32 / Tuesday, February 18, 2020 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13905 of February 12, 2020
Strengthening National Resilience Through
Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Services
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. The national and economic security
of the United States depends on the reliable and
efficient functioning of critical infrastructure. Since
the United States made the Global Positioning System
available worldwide, positioning, navigation, and
timing (PNT) services provided by space-based systems
have become a largely invisible utility for technology
and infrastructure, including the electrical power
grid, communications infrastructure and mobile devices,
all modes of transportation, precision agriculture,
weather forecasting, and emergency response. Because of
the widespread adoption of PNT services, the disruption
or manipulation of these services has the potential to
adversely affect the national and economic security of
the United States. To strengthen national resilience,
the Federal Government must foster the responsible use
of PNT services by critical infrastructure owners and
operators.
Sec. 2. Definitions. As used in this order:
(a) ``PNT services'' means any system, network, or
capability that provides a reference to calculate or
augment the calculation of longitude, latitude,
altitude, or transmission of time or frequency data, or
any combination thereof.
(b) ``Responsible use of PNT services'' means the
deliberate, risk-informed use of PNT services,
including their acquisition, integration, and
deployment, such that disruption or manipulation of PNT
services minimally affects national security, the
economy, public health, and the critical functions of
the Federal Government.
(c) ``Critical infrastructure'' means systems and
assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the
United States that the incapacity or destruction of
such systems and assets would have a debilitating
impact on national security, national economic
security, national public health or safety, or on any
combination of those matters.
(d) ``PNT profile'' means a description of the
responsible use of PNT services--aligned to standards,
guidelines, and sector-specific requirements--selected
for a particular system to address the potential
disruption or manipulation of PNT services.
(e) ``Sector-Specific Agency'' (SSA) is the
executive department or agency that is responsible for
providing institutional knowledge and specialized
expertise as well as leading, facilitating, or
supporting the security and resilience programs and
associated activities of its designated critical
infrastructure sector in the all-hazards environment.
The SSAs are those identified in Presidential Policy
Directive 21 of February 12, 2013 (Critical
Infrastructure Security and Resilience).
Sec. 3. Policy. It is the policy of the United States
to ensure that disruption or manipulation of PNT
services does not undermine the reliable and efficient
functioning of its critical infrastructure. The Federal
Government must increase the Nation's awareness of the
extent to which critical infrastructure depends on, or
is enhanced by, PNT services, and it must ensure
critical infrastructure can withstand disruption or
manipulation of PNT services.
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To this end, the Federal Government shall engage the
public and private sectors to identify and promote the
responsible use of PNT services.
Sec. 4. Implementation. (a) Within 1 year of the date
of this order, the Secretary of Commerce, in
coordination with the heads of SSAs and in
consultation, as appropriate, with the private sector,
shall develop and make available, to at least the
appropriate agencies and private sector users, PNT
profiles. The PNT profiles will enable the public and
private sectors to identify systems, networks, and
assets dependent on PNT services; identify appropriate
PNT services; detect the disruption and manipulation of
PNT services; and manage the associated risks to the
systems, networks, and assets dependent on PNT
services. Once made available, the PNT profiles shall
be reviewed every 2 years and, as necessary, updated.
(b) The Secretary of Defense, Secretary of
Transportation, and Secretary of Homeland Security
shall refer to the PNT profiles created pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section in updates to the
Federal Radionavigation Plan.
(c) Within 1 year of the date of this order, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with
the heads of SSAs, shall develop a plan to test the
vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure systems,
networks, and assets in the event of disruption and
manipulation of PNT services. The results of the tests
carried out under that plan shall be used to inform
updates to the PNT profiles identified in subsection
(a) of this section.
(d) Within 90 days of the PNT profiles being made
available, the heads of SSAs and the heads of other
executive departments and agencies (agencies), as
appropriate, through the Secretary of Homeland
Security, shall develop contractual language for
inclusion of the relevant information from the PNT
profiles in the requirements for Federal contracts for
products, systems, and services that integrate or
utilize PNT services, with the goal of encouraging the
private sector to use additional PNT services and
develop new robust and secure PNT services. The heads
of SSAs and the heads of other agencies, as
appropriate, shall update the requirements as
necessary.
(e) Within 180 days of the completion of any of the
duties described in subsection (d) of this section, and
consistent with applicable law and to the maximum
extent practicable, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory
Council, in consultation with the heads of SSAs and the
heads of other agencies, as appropriate, shall
incorporate the requirements developed under subsection
(d) of this section into Federal contracts for
products, systems, and services that integrate or use
PNT services.
(f) Within 1 year of the PNT profiles being made
available, and biennially thereafter, the heads of SSAs
and the heads of other agencies, as appropriate,
through the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall
submit a report to the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs and the Director of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on the
extent to which the PNT profiles have been adopted in
their respective agencies' acquisitions and, to the
extent possible, the extent to which PNT profiles have
been adopted by owners and operators of critical
infrastructure.
(g) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the
Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, and
Secretary of Homeland Security shall each develop plans
to engage with critical infrastructure owners or
operators to evaluate the responsible use of PNT
services. Each pilot program shall be completed within
1 year of developing the plan, and the results shall be
used to inform the development of the relevant PNT
profile and research and development (R&D)
opportunities.
(h) Within 1 year of the date of this order, the
Director of OSTP shall coordinate the development of a
national plan, which shall be informed by existing
initiatives, for the R&D and pilot testing of
additional, robust, and secure PNT services that are
not dependent on global navigation satellite systems
(GNSS). The plan shall also include approaches to
integrate and use multiple PNT services to enhance the
resilience of critical infrastructure.
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Once the plan is published, the Director of OSTP shall
coordinate updates to the plan every 4 years, or as
appropriate.
(i) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the
Secretary of Commerce shall make available a GNSS-
independent source of Coordinated Universal Time, to
support the needs of critical infrastructure owners and
operators, for the public and private sectors to
access.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
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