Broadband Breakfast: GPS Needs a Backup, Terrestrial PNT Is the Answer

There could not be a more critical time to address the urgent need for a terrestrial complement and backup to GPS. It is a national security imperative. Our daily lives depend on GPS. It powers much of our nation's critical infrastructure including electricity, telecommunications, public safety, and banking/financial transactions.

"This is a problem we both understand well. While Rep. Walden owned and operated radio stations and chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Sanchez worked in the defense sector and served on both the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security. We have seen the two sides of this coin: how technologies like GPS are so vital to everyday existence, yet so dangerous in the hands of harmful actors."

Check out this op-ed in Broadband Breakfast by former House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Oregon) and former member of both the Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-California), making the case for a ground-based complement and backup to GPS to help strengthen our national security.