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The Government Accounting Office (GAO) ] issued a e report examining the challenges the Department of Defense faces in developing and fielding new positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies to complement, augment or replace GPS when it is unavailable. It found that the DOD is not doing enough in this regard.
Telecom groups press president, Congress for GPS alternatives America urgently needs alternatives to GPS and the government must fund efforts to make that happen. So say separate documents sent to President Biden and senior members of Congress earlier this month. On May 6, the government’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) issued its “Report to the President on Communications Resiliency.” The next day the industry group Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) sent letters to Congress. Both organizations identify the need for alternatives t...
Society relies on GPS — and the technology is vulnerable Meddlers range from nation-states to teenagers. If it went out, you'd notice. We need a backup. By Kate Murphy Text size Copy shortlink: Time was when nobody knew, or even cared, exactly what time it was. The movement of the sun, phases of the moon and changing seasons were sufficient indicators. But since the Industrial Revolution, we've become increasingly dependent on knowing the time, and with increasing accuracy. Not only does the time tell us when to sleep, wake, eat, work a...
THE SYSTEM IS ESSENTIAL BUT ALSO VULNERABLE. WE NEED A BACKUP. Time was when nobody knew, or even cared, exactly what time it was. The movement of the sun, phases of the moon and changing seasons were sufficient indicators. But since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve become increasingly dependent on knowing the time, and with increasing accuracy. Not only does the time tell us when to sleep, wake, eat, work and play; it tells automated systems when to execute financial transactions, bounce data between cellular towers and throttle power on the electrical grid. Coordinated Universal Time, or ...