NextNav’s Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Renee Gregory, authored an op-ed for Security Sales & Integration titled “We Stand by the Engineering: Devices in the 900 MHz Band Coexist Today and Will Tomorrow.” In the piece, Gregory highlights the growing vulnerabilities of GPS, citing real-world jamming and spoofing incidents in the Middle East—and underscores the urgency for the United States to act by advancing a reliable complement and backup to GPS.
“By ignoring both the urgency of the threat and the strength of the engineering analysis supporting near-term solutions such as 5G-powered 3D PNT, the Z-Wave Alliance argues that the U.S. can afford to wait. At NextNav, we strongly disagree.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is working to enable resilient PNT. Among the solutions that the Commission is examining is NextNav’s ground-based 5G-powered 3D PNT complement and backup to GPS. We are serious about solving an urgent national security problem and we will continue to do the hard work necessary to support the FCC’s fact-based, engineering-driven decision-making.”
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