Costs of New Tech

摘要

The U.S. government has announced that it will not support civil use of the P(Y) signal after December 2020 (see EXPERT ADVICE, page 8). For the economic aspects of this decision, Alan Cameron (AC) talked with Jason Kim (JK), senior analyst at the Department of Commerce, working within the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. AC: Give us first the basic groundwork for this decision. JK: As you know, semi-codeless has never been explicitly authorized for use, it's really exploitation of military signals. The SPS Performance Standard and the Federal Radionavigation Plan state that the U.S. government will continue to provide stability for P(Y) until such time as the second coded civil signal becomes operational, or words to that effect.