Whoa! Let’s take a few deep breaths and calmly assess some of the news hype over April 30th Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on GPS.
Firstly, read the actual report (www.gao.gov/new.items/d09325.pdf) and not the wildly imaginative interpretations recently spewed out by a hyper-reactive press. Note that report is titled “Significant Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Widely Used Capabilities” and not “GPS is Doomed!”
The GAO report is assessing the risks, not predicting failure. In a related GAO report issued May 20th; “DOD Faces Substantial Challenges in Developing New Space Systems” we see that it is not only GPS that faces these challenges. Some of the challenges to GPS have to do with delays in launch systems, budgetary constraints and the sad fact that no development contract has come anywhere near budget or timeline in decades.
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