A judge today ruled in part against the US government’s move to dismiss the suit, marking the latest turn in a saga over who will control spectrum the DoD says it needs for military GPS.
By Aaron MehtaIntegrating commercial off-the-shelf computing on military platforms and how to make it work
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
The language in the SASC version of FY25 NDAA demands that DoD detail what military systems have previously and currently have operated in, or in those adjacent to, “the 1525-1559 megahertz and the 1626.5-1660.5 megahertz” radio frequency bands at the center of the long-running DoD-Ligado dispute.
By Theresa Hitchens “Ligado fails to plead any plausible facts to support its purely speculative claim that the Government has occupied its licensed spectrum,” alleges the DoJ motion to dismiss the satellite communication firm’s suit in US Federal Claims Court.
By Theresa Hitchens The lawsuit is the latest in a decade-spanning battle between Ligado and opponents in government.
By Theresa Hitchens
The report, required by Congress to get to the bottom of whether Ligado’s network would interfere with DoD capabilities, classifies much of the military impact.
By Theresa Hitchens
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is planning to release on Sept. 9 its review of the impacts on DoD use of GPS – just a few weeks before Ligado plans to go live.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Air Force wants software “that can be fielded in the next two years and incrementally improved upon and integrated into EW systems currently in development for the F-15.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Answers at the edge: Where to find solutions that connect the battlespace
When it comes to a common operating picture, not everyone needs the same equipment. What they need is the same situational awareness.
WASHINGTON: No currently available commercial alternative can provide a stand-alone backup to GPS, concludes a long-awaited study led by the Transportation Department. While some systems can stand in for GPS’s timing function, none provide robust enough positioning and navigation capabilities, the study concludes. The study, Complementary PNT and GPS Backup Technologies Demonstration Report, was released Friday…
By Theresa Hitchens
The Pentagon is finding alternative clouds while waiting for JEDI, Dana Deasy said, so it can upgrade them to JEDI as soon as the courts allow.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“There’s a lot of inefficiencies in the process. But it’s basically a fight, with each community pressing its case to its own regulatory body,” says Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for technology, policy and regulation.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think there’s some very compelling petitions for reconsideration before the FCC right now, so I’m hoping that they would hit the pause button,” says Iridium’s legal rep Robert McDowell.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I’m very confident going forward that we’ve made a decision that is based much more on sound engineering as opposed to some of the fear mongering that we’ve heard,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says.
By Theresa Hitchens
Dale Leibach, Keep GPS Working spokesperson, says that already “about one-third — Republicans and Democrats — of the Senate oppose” the Ligado plan.
By Theresa Hitchens
Besides shoring up physical defenses against foreign threats, Senate Armed Services chairman Jim Inhofe is fighting against the FCC’s transfer of spectrum from GPS to 5G firm Ligado.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
