Management of GPS

Aron Pinker, Stephen Adams, Christina Beirne

Abstract:	The Air Force has since 1973 effectively managed the GPS, providing prescribed, dependable, conti-nuous, global product free of charge. Originally de-signed and developed as a military technology, GPS was quickly recognized by civilians as having a multi-tude of significant applications, making it a basic commodity. The shift in the user base brought to the fore inadequacies in the traditional management of the GPS. While civilian use of GPS continues to grow and it becomes an indispensable element of many navigation and timing systems, the network continues to be managed and funded by the DoD and its evolution is governed by military utility only. We discuss the basic GPS management dilemmas; examine the organizational structure of the Atomic Energy Commission (an agency created specifically to manage a dual use technology for both the military and civilian community) as a prototype management structure for GPS; and present the results of a survey of the GPS Management framework that was conducted with a group of GPS decision makers.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1999 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 25 - 27, 1999 Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA
Pages:	695 - 706
Cite this article:	Pinker, Aron, Adams, Stephen, Beirne, Christina, "Management of GPS," Proceedings of the 1999 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, January 1999, pp. 695-706.
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