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Prioritize GPS & PNT or Risk Losing Future Wars

July 4, 2026

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What’s new: An opinion piece about the importance of upgrading GPS and making it as capable a system as possible – a more important and even better piece would have said the same thing, but about PNT.

Why it’s important:

  • GPS will be the cornerstone of most PNT architectures for the foreseeable future. It has to be maintained and protected.
  • Having a resilient PNT architecture will protect GPS by making it a much less attractive target.

What else to know:

  • We care about GPS because it provides us a PNT service.
  • What we care about most is the service and its users. They are what we must focus on.

 

Prioritize GPS or Risk Losing Future Wars

By Christopher Stone
July 01, 2026

The U.S. Global Positioning System stands as America’s key part of its critical space infrastructure. It is foundational to a highly functioning society. It underpins everything from smartphones, navigation for commercial aviation, precision-guided weapons, and global financial networks. Yet despite its strategic importance, GPS modernization has too often been treated as a billpayer within defense budgeting, with funds redirected to other priorities whenever fiscal pressure emerges. That approach is shortsighted and increasingly dangerous.

GPS is the backbone of both American military power and vast sectors of critical societal and economic strength. In an era of daily Chinese and Russian attacks on GPS’ space, electromagnetic, and ground segments, the United States cannot afford delays, program instability, or another failed modernization effort. To prevent this, America must use what works, rather than the pursuit of the ambitious and perfect solution.

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