The Global Positioning System is vulnerable to threats such as jamming and anti-satellite weapons and the United States should reduce its dependence on the system while developing alternatives for precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), the U.S. Air Force’s top military leader said Wednesday (January 20).
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz made the comments during his opening keynote address, “The United States as an Aerospace Nation: Challenges and Opportunities,” at the Tuft University Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy. Schwartz said the U.S. military and its allies must be able to operate in a GPS-denied environment because efforts by adversaries to prevent allied use of GPS-provided PNT will only increase.
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