White House advisory group blasts US government, DoD inattention to GPS woes
The President’s National Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board recommends that the Biden administration create a new “locus of authority and accountability for PNT decision-making beyond DoD GPS program management.”
By Theresa Hitchens
on August 14, 2024 at 12:22 PM
WASHINGTON — The independent White House advisory group on GPS is taking the US government to task for failing to adequately address increased risks of interference with the Pentagon owned satellites, and for lack of progress in finding alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems — suggesting that control of GPS functions should lie outside the Defense Department.
“America’s continued over-reliance on GPS for PNT makes critical infrastructure and applications vulnerable to a variety of well documented accidental, natural, and malicious threats,” Thaad Allen, chair of the President’s National Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, wrote in a recent memo to the Defense and Transportation Department deputy secretaries.
“Simply put, the Board believes that the 20-year-old framework for GPS governance and the current policy statements establish neither the priority that the system deserves nor sufficiently clear accountability for its performance,” he added.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/08/white-house-advisory-group-blasts-us-government-dod-inattention-to-gps-woes/
