Congressional Mandate Means More Work on New Military GPS Receivers

摘要

The Air Force is scouring the landscape for its next round of receiver technology now that the first increment of its military receiver development program is moving into a deeper testing phase. Though this expanded effort has to fulfill a long established requirement — the Air Force must develop a multiservice, handheld receiver — the GPS program is now also working on a congressional mandate requiring that Amer- ican military equipment also incorporate signals from other nation's satellite navigation constellations, maybe even all of those constellations.