Democrat Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, where Boeing is headquartered, continues to raise concerns about potential interference with civil and military aviation.
"Orbital debris remediation is one of the main areas where the US is falling behind other countries, and this bill would help put America back in a leadership position on making space more sustainable for all to use," enthused Secure World Foundation's Brian Weeden.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
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.
"Right now we're on track to have a major collision in Low Earth Orbit roughly every 10 years. And that problem is only getting worse and worse," said AGI CEO Paul Graziani.
"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.
Dale Leibach, Keep GPS Working spokesperson, says that already "about one-third -- Republicans and Democrats -- of the Senate oppose" the Ligado plan.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.