10 U.S.C. § 488: Management and review of electromagnetic spectrum

ensure the effective organization and management of the electromagnetic spectrum used by the Department of Defense; and considers all requirements relating to such spectrum; and ensures that all users of such spectrum, regardless of the classification of such uses, are involved in the decision-making process of the Department concerning the potential sharing, reassigning, or reallocating of such spectrum, or the relocation of the uses by the Department of such spectrum. From time to time as the Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff determine useful for the effective oversight of the access by the Department to electromagnetic spectrum, but not less frequently than every two years, the Secretary and the Chairman shall jointly submit to the congressional defense committees a report on national policy plans regarding implications for such access in bands identified for study for potential reallocation, or under consideration for potential reallocation, by the Policy and Plans Steering Group established by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. would potentially create a loss of essential military capability to the missions of the Department, as determined under feasibility assessments to ensure comparable capability; or would not likely be possible within the 10-year period beginning on the date of the report. not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [ Dec. 23, 2016 ], issue a Department of Defense Instruction or a Department of Defense Directive to carry out section 488(a) of title 10 , United States Code, as amended by subsection (a); and upon the date of the issuance of the instruction or directive issued under paragraph (1), submit to the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives] such instruction or directive.”