LEIF LARSON: Satellite-Based GPS Becoming National Security Problem

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The United States needs a resilient, terrestrial complement and backup to GPS, with Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems, to keep pace with other developed nations that already have these technologies in place, including China and Russia. Our satellite-based GPS systems are increasingly susceptible to jamming and spoofing, a vulnerability that has drawn heightened attention amid recent geopolitical conflicts and the rise of electronic warfare.

It is political malpractice that our nation is behind, because America produces the premier technology used abroad. A nation that has been the incubator for global domination in tech like Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Google has not leveraged that innovation to make government more efficient and America safer.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under the leadership of Chairman Brendan Carr, is advancing rulemaking to establish a spectrum framework that would enable the deployment of a terrestrial GPS system, fulfilling a key Trump priority. A backup to satellite-based GPS will strengthen national security while providing a needed backstop to currently utilized older technology. One company, NextNav, has developed next-generation PNT........

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