White Paper Urges Open Access to Countries' GNSS Signals
Not taking full advantage of the various global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals available harms the U.S. "at no cost to America's foreign adversaries," authors said in an Apple-funded white paper filed at the FCC Tuesday (docket 25-110). John Raquet,…
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senior vice president at Integrated Solutions for Systems, and Terry Burruss, a former senior intelligence officer in the CIA's Directorate of Digital Innovation, said that for internet-assisted navigation and timing systems, having access to multiple GNSS signals carries little risk. Allowing access to multiple GNSS constellations also lets U.S. companies compete better, they said. Investing in GPS "is paramount," but adopting open access to GNSS signals "will allow the U.S. to continue to lead in GNSS-related technology, as it has since the inception of GPS."