The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued on May 7 an alarming report on the future of GPS, characterizing ongoing modernization efforts as shaky. The agency appears to single out the IIF program as the weak link between current stability and ensured future capability, calling into doubt “whether the Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in time to maintain current GPS service without interruption.” It asserts the very real possibility that “in 2010, as old satellites begin to fail, the overall GPS constellation will fall below the number of satellites required to provide the level of GPS service that the U.S. government commits to.”

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Guess I'd better find all of those caches on my "to do" list before the end of the year.

I doubt it will turn out to be a major problem. It would be crazy to let the GPS system degrade that far seeing as how it is integrated into so many things in our society and government.

Yeah, the Federal government would never wait for a situaton to reach a crisis before acting.