In a new opinion piece for Broadband Breakfast, Renee Gregory—NextNav’s Vice President of Regulatory Affairs—urges U.S. leaders to act now to address this challenging but solvable problem: the lack of a resilient complement or backup for GPS.
With a distinguished career spanning the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, FCC, NTIA, Google, and leading law firms, Renee brings unparalleled insight into the intersection of policy and technology.
“We rely on GPS every day, often in ways we don’t even realize. GPS helps to power our public safety networks, secure our energy grid, synchronize financial transactions, and not to mention give us directions on our phones.
Yet, at any moment, a range of natural or man-made events could disrupt the GPS satellite network. Intentional attacks on Global Navigation Satellite Systems have real impacts, as demonstrated in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. While we haven’t experienced such attacks in the United States, a single-point-of-failure PNT system is a tremendous risk to our country’s national and economic security.“
Read the full article to learn more about this national security threat and NextNav’s mission to enable a terrestrial PNT solution to help solve this problem.