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GAO Advises DoD Prioritize Development of GPS Alternatives

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, August 17th, 2022

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GAO Advises DoD Prioritize Development of GPS Alternatives

Soldier in glasses of virtual reality. The concept of the future.

While the Pentagon has undertaken 11 alternatives to GPS efforts, DoD's Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Oversight Council has emphasized the envisioned move to the anti-jamming, anti-spoofing, encrypted M-code signal and should prioritize GPS alternatives, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report for the Senate Armed Services Committee this month. The council, co-chaired by the Pentagon acquisition chief and the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "has largely prioritized modernizing the existing GPS system over alternative PNT…

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