'GPS: Can We Avoid a Gap in Service?'

摘要

The Global Positioning System is a vital U.S. military space capability and a source of strategic national advantage to U.S. forces. It is also an increasingly vital part of several critical infrastructures for air transportation, maritime shipping, electrical power, communications, natural resource management and emergency responders at the federal, state and local levels.rnThe continued stability, health and protection of GPS capabilities are thus vital to a wide range of national interests.rnGPS is a successful dual-use technology that has benefited from Air Force operational stewardship and bipartisan policy support across multiple administrations and sessions of Congress. It is a notable and all too rare example of domestic as well as international cooperation with benefits to the national security, civil, commercial, scientific and international communities that use GPS.