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GPS Policy Development
| Abstract: | INTRODUCTION The Global Positioning System (GPS) is an emerging worldwide utility with global benefits many of which are just beginning to be realized. Use of GPS as the positioning and/or timing source within a system can allow for an overall cheaper, more accurate, reliable, efficient and typically smaller integrated system to be dev~ while simultaneously providing better service and reliability than other technological solutions. It also affords the opportunity for truly seamless international navigation and timing systems, critical for safe, efficient transportation and timing synchronization. GPS has proven itself as a job and industry maker both within the US and internationally. GPS is a powerfid enabling technology -- with benefits far beyond the US borders -- supporting a wealth of extremely diverse applications, new industries and critical systems of the basic intktructure. It represents a premier example of a dual-use technology. Today, GPS is used within the iqfkastructure of the United States (US) and that of other countries to the extent that many consider GPS a utility. Unlike other longer standing utilities such as the phone or power, GPS is relatively new and must mature. Although many currently depend upon GPS like a utility and would incur negative impact if it were absent or degraded, it is still new enough that not all protect this vital international asset. Since it is a new utility, we are undergoing some growth pains. We are at a crossroads in many critical decision areas such as spectrum protection and management and GPS modernization. With the coming of the new millennium, the direction many of these issues has taken will be apparent. |
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Proceedings of the 11th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1998) September 15 - 18, 1998 Nashville, TN |
| Pages: | 1119 - 1130 |
| Cite this article: | Frodge, Sally L., "GPS Policy Development," Proceedings of the 11th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1998), Nashville, TN, September 1998, pp. 1119-1130. |
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