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According to the GAO GPS may go dark next year;

It’s unclear whether the U.S. Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in time to prevent disruption in GPS service for military and civilian users, according to the report.

The GAO said that the Air Force has struggled in recent years to stay within cost and scheduling constraints while building GPS satellites. So far, one satellite program has incurred cost overruns of $870 million and the launch of its first satellite has been pushed back three years to November 2009

Of course some idiot has the idea to make the service private – because that always solves the world’s problems. Maybe he would want the service managed by a Chinese firm? It’s managed by the Air Force for a reason (even without Selective Availability in play):

“Hand it over to a private firm, using ongoing accountability in both system performance and cost efficiencies as benchmarks.”

Once you hand it over to a private firm you’ll start seeing fee’s to access the GPS satellites. And they would be able to charge whatever they like since they would be the only ones with access to the GPS satellite network. Privatizing is not always a good idea. We’re already paying for the satellites through taxes, we don’t need another fee just to access them.

via GPS Could Fail Next Year, Warns GAO — GPS — InformationWeek.

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