Bill Proposes to Establish Land-Based Backup for GPS
On March 26, 2015, Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) introduced the National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 1678). The bill proposes that, "The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Commandant of the Coast Guard and the Secretary of Transportation, shall provide for the establishment, sustainment, and operation of a reliable land-based positioning, navigation, and timing system to provide a complement to and backup for GPS to ensure the availability of uncorrupted or non-degraded positioning, navigation, and timing signals for military and civilian users if GPS signals are corrupted, degraded, unreliable, or otherwise unavailable." Learn more at GPS.gov.
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