On Nov 5, 10:32*am, Alan Browne
wrote:


Given the state of the US federal debt and deficit and the high
reliability and availability of GPS, there is no urgency to spend more
money.


I'm surprised GAO didn't recommend cancellation of GPS III.

Boeing proposes the DoD should order additional GPS IIF satellites.
They have that so called 'Pulse Line' manufacturing system debugged
and contend they can deliver two of three satellites per year; easily
outpacing launch capabilities. That plan would delete LIC resulting in
a semi-modernized constellation.

Then, OCX can be eliminated with additional software patches applied
to the current ground software as required to operate the L5, L2C and
M Code signals. But there's no hurry to do that since M Code user
equipment isn't anywhere near ready for delivery, we all have been
doing just fine without L2C and L5 cannot be ready any time soon
either.

That should maintain things until the US collapses on the road to
finical perdition.

--- CHAS