Following her role as host of “The Race to GPS Resiliency“ on Capitol Hill this week, former Acting Administrator of NTIA Diane Rinaldo shares her perspective in a new op-ed for the Washington Reporter.
She makes the case for urgent action: America must accelerate efforts to deploy a system-of-systems approach to PNT resiliency — one that includes both terrestrial and space-based solutions to protect our economy, infrastructure, and national defense.
“There is no one-size-fits-all solution to this challenge. In fact, pursuing a sole solution will recreate the same redundancy and fragility problem America faces with GPS today — a single point of failure. Developing such a multi-faceted solution requires a clear appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of each, and unfortunately, right now, that comparison is artificially skewed by narrow special interests. Adopting a 5G based terrestrial PNT system requires no build out, no taxpayer funding, and no new legislation — a win-win from a fiscal and legislative perspective, to say nothing of the time-savings that will result.“
Read the full op-ed here: https://washingtonreporter.news/p/op-ed-diane-rinaldo-build-the-future