Congress Seeks Limits on Russian GLONASS Station in U.S.

As Congress moves closer to final approval of the fiscal year 2014 national defense authorization act, efforts to slow or derail a plan by the Russian space agency to place GLONASS receiving stations in the U.S. are progressing.  The final bill will likely include a provision requiring the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence to certify to Congress that such ground monitoring stations will not be used to gather intelligence in the United States, or enhance capabilities of a foreign weapon system.