HR1765-119

What This Bill Does

The Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2025 tells the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, who leads NTIA, to strengthen U.S. leadership in communications standards bodies for 5G and future wireless networks. In consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of State, the Assistant Secretary must equitably encourage participation by companies and other relevant stakeholders in standards-setting bodies and offer technical expertise to help them participate. The support excludes any company or stakeholder the Assistant Secretary determines is not trusted. Covered standards bodies include the International Organization for Standardization, voluntary standards bodies that develop protocols for wireless devices and equipment such as 3GPP and IEEE, and bodies accredited by the American National Standards Institute or the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. Within 60 days, the Assistant Secretary must brief House Energy and Commerce, House Foreign Affairs, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Senate Foreign Relations on the implementation strategy. The bill defines 5G by 3GPP Release 15 or higher and defines not trusted by relying only on specified federal national-security determinations, including Federal Acquisition Security Council determinations, Commerce determinations under Executive Order 13873 on ICT supply-chain security, and covered telecommunications equipment or services under section 889 of the FY2019 NDAA.

Who Benefits and How

U.S. telecommunications companies, U.S. wireless equipment manufacturers, semiconductor companies, cloud-computing providers, standards engineers, 3GPP participants, IEEE participants, ANSI-accredited standards participants, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions members, NTIA staff, NIST technical experts, State Department technology diplomats, and congressional commerce and foreign-affairs committees benefit from federal encouragement, technical expertise, and a clearer strategy for U.S. influence in global wireless standards.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The NTIA Assistant Secretary, National Institute of Standards and Technology staff, State Department technology-policy staff, Commerce Department national-security reviewers, Federal Acquisition Security Council participants, untrusted telecommunications equipment providers, covered communications-network vendors, foreign firms subject to ICT supply-chain determinations, and congressional briefing staff must implement trust determinations, withhold federal support from not-trusted stakeholders, coordinate technical assistance, and prepare a 60-day strategy briefing.

Key Provisions

• Requires NTIA to encourage U.S. company and stakeholder participation in 5G and future wireless standards bodies.
• Requires NTIA, NIST, and State to offer technical expertise to trusted participants.
• Excludes companies and stakeholders determined not trusted from federal participation support.
• Defines relevant standards bodies to include ISO, 3GPP, IEEE, ANSI-accredited bodies, and Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions bodies.
• Requires congressional implementation strategy briefings within 60 days.
• Limits not-trusted determinations to specified federal national-security findings and covered telecommunications equipment or services.