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GNSS System Administration Ax Falls on PNT Backup, Loran-COctober 29, 2009
By: Alan Cameron
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On October 28, President Barrack Obama signed into law a bill that effectively sounds the death knell for the best hope for a GPS back-up, a system that might have prevented national and industrial infrastructure breakdown in the event of various probable disruptions, interference, or intentional jamming.
The president signed the Department of Homeland Defense (DHS) appropriations bill that allows termination of Loran-C in Jan 2010. Further, the House just passed a revised version of its Coast Guard authorization bill, replacing the mandate to convert Loran-C into eLoran with a call for its termination, in line with the DHS appropriations bill. Further details are available at www.PNT.gov/congress.
The Coast Guard Commandant and DHS are expected to sign off almost immediately that Loran-C can be terminated. Once they sign it, signals will go off air on Jan 4, 2010.
In his first budget, President Obama said that Loran-C was obsolete, and that obsolete systems would be eliminated. It has become clear that the entire Administration and Democrat-led Congress have rallied to support the president’s assertion that Loran-C is the poster child of obsolete systems, and must be killed.
The politicians appear immune to any notion that GPS is vulnerable to a range of disruptions, and that the national timing, communications, and financial infrastructures that depend on GPS are likewise open both to intentional attack and to natural interference.
The president also signed the Department of Defense authorization bill, which among other things authorized a $97.4 million cut to the next-generation GPS ground control system, or OCX.
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Give a job to someone who has no clue and this is what you get. Loran may be old, but it is by no means obsolete. There is still much need for the system.
The same thinking is going on with the new and improved(?) health bill. Look out elderly...you are obsolete and the obsolete will be eliminated. :P
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Unbelievable!!! The majority of the commercial fishing fleets along with the offshore charter boats that is what they use 95% of the time, if not 100. nosmly
Well just whisper something in his ear that he knows nothing about, tell him it is obsolete and out comes the pen. nts What a joke!
We would be better off with a chimpanzee in office. 3 More years, lets hope we can get it right this time around. Now that we satisfied everyone who wanted to be apart of history, I hope we can voted for someone with a little more experience this time.
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The same thinking is going on with the new and improved(?) health bill. Look out elderly...you are obsolete and the obsolete will be eliminated. :P
Where is that in the bill? 5hrug