In a March 9 letter to Stephen Feinberg, nominated for deputy defense secretary, Warren argues that his adult children and the private equity firm he founded could financially benefit from the ongoing lawsuit between Ligado and the US government.
Meanwhile, the company said it has no intentions of dropping its lawsuit against the federal government over L-band spectrum use.
Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.
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.
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.
"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.
The lawsuit is the latest in a decade-spanning battle between Ligado and opponents in government.
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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.
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.
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."
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 […]
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
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.
"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.
"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.
"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.