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House Panel Rejects Some Funding For Quick Start GPS Effort, Wants Alternatives

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 12th, 2024

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House Panel Rejects Some Funding For Quick Start GPS Effort, Wants Alternatives

Pictured is a depiction of a GPS satellite, operated by Delta 8 at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. (Lockheed Martin and U.S. Space Force Photo)

Just as the Department of the Air Force is soliciting offers for a new constellation of resilient GPS satellites, House appropriators on Thursday will begin to mark-up a defense bill that would eliminate a chunk of the proposed funding for the new initiative and demand the Pentagon explore alternative solutions. The recommendation in the proposed fiscal year 2025 defense appropriations bill would eliminate the $77 million realignment requested by the U.S. Space Force for the Resilient-GPS (R-GPS) program and raises…

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