NASA Chief – “Space Force to Guard GPS” – Bloomberg

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July 14, 2018

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Blog Editor’s Note – We are really, really good with guarding GPS. But the real threats to are to the signals, not the satellites, and come from the ground not space. Perhaps we should worry about that first…

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Trump’s Space Force Will Guard the U.S. From Above, NASA Chief Says

Eric Roston

July 12, 2018, 4:00 AM EDT

NASA’s administrator is a strong defender of President Donald Trump’s proposals for space — including an armed force and a permanent presence on the moon — and says he wants Americans to realize how much their well-being depends on what happens far above Earth.

“Every banking transaction requires a GPS signal for timing,” Jim Bridenstine said in an interview. “You lose the GPS signal and guess what you lose? You lose banking.”

“If you look at what space is, it’s not that much different than the ocean,” added Bridenstine, who made 333 aircraft-carrier landings as a Navy pilot. “It’s an international domain that has commerce that needs to be protected.”

PNT is the quiet backbone of everything but too many leaders still don't see the risk.

But you do. You understand the systems, the dependencies, the failure chains. That insight is rare — and it's exactly what your country needs right now. Contact your government leaders and industry decision-makers and tell them resilient PNT isn't a feature — it's the foundation everything else depends on.

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