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GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« on: May 20, 2009, 08:35:41 AM »
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520636,00.html
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Mismanagement and underinvestment by the U.S. Air Force could possibly lead to the failure and blackout of the Global Positioning System (GPS), a federal watchdog agency says.

The risk of failure starts in 2010, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report quoted by PC World.

The failure would impact not only military operations, but also the millions of people and businesses who rely on the satellite-based navigation systems built into cars, boats and cell phones.

"If the Air Force does not meet its schedule goals for development of GPS IIIA satellites, there will be an increased likelihood that in 2010, as old satellites begin to fail, the overall GPS constellation will fall below the number of satellites required to provide the level of GPS service that the U.S. government commits to," the GAO report states.

The report says the Air Force has struggled to build successful GPS satellites within cost and on schedule.

PC World article here:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/165126/gps_system_could_begin_to_fail_within_a_year.html
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2009, 09:33:06 AM »
Good thing I learned how to use a compass and map in the Boy Scouts.
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2009, 09:37:25 AM »
Good thing I learned how to use a compass and map in the Boy Scouts.


I was thinking the same thing... I actually don't even need that to find my way...

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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2009, 09:48:44 AM »
I remember, when I was in the Navy, the looks of confusion on the faces of new Ensigns when the Quarter Masters were showing them how to use charts and a plotting table. That was when the most advanced electronic guidence was inertia guidence. I wonder if basic seamanship is still taught in the age of GPS?
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2009, 09:51:29 AM »
coasties do, atleast for the officers.
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2009, 09:58:37 AM »
I remember, when I was in the Navy, the looks of confusion on the faces of new Ensigns when the Quarter Masters were showing them how to use charts and a plotting table. That was when the most advanced electronic guidence was inertia guidence. I wonder if basic seamanship is still taught in the age of GPS?

Hell CJ....the bottom two people in my A-School class were officers!  Not real bright for college boys.....

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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2009, 10:09:55 AM »
So instead of hearing that sweet voice from my dash tell me to "turn right in 3/8 of a mile", she'll be asking me, "where the hell are we?!?"?
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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2009, 10:12:22 AM »
So instead of hearing that sweet voice from my dash tell me to "turn right in 3/8 of a mile", she'll be asking me, "where the hell are we?!?"?


thats what happends when you give the wife the map...








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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2009, 10:14:46 AM »
( yet people wonder why I'm still single.)

Oh we know why you are single!


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Re: GPS System Could Fail Next Year
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2009, 10:17:37 AM »
Oh we know why you are single!


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I suspect that may be only ONE of the reasons.  ;D
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