"The Abrams doesn't do very well without ammunition [and the] Bradley does not do very well without fuel. So how does a fueler meet up with a Bradley in a contested environment if it doesn't have GPS [and] it can't calculate a route?” said Aaron Mebust, the vice president and director of GPS Source at General Dynamics.
GAO found 11 individual programs spread across OSD and the military services, as well as separate answers for the Pentagon's "open systems approach."
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Rather than wait for a much-delayed Air Force system, the Army's plan is to deploy Generation 1 of its new receiver this year, starting with the 2nd Calvary Regiment, the 1st Armored Division, and the 1st Infantry Division.
The first iteration of the new Assured Precision Navigation & Timing (APNT) kit will go to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Germany for evaluation.