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Those of you that read this blog regularly should know me a little by now. I'm not one to be cynical as you will recall!...
Those of you that read this blog regularly should know me a little by now. I'm not one to be cynical as you will recall!
I have never seen a press release from the White House before but this week a link that I clicked on re-directed me to a little snippet on their press secretary's website. Seeing as George W. Bush made the BusinessCar Power List of the top 50 most important people in fleet (and that list really created some debate with the colleagues I discussed it with) when his office releases a statement concerning fleet we should all take notice.
There has always been this capability of the US military to interfere with the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal. This has been managed by the US Department of Defence buying satellites that have the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals. The degradation capability known as Selective Availability (SA) will no longer be present in GPS III satellites and SA capabilities will be removed from existing satellites.
Now the cynic in me would suggest that this decision has been made as a direct reaction to the Galileo (EU satellite system) project being controlled by civilians and their guarantee that the system signals will not be interfered with, but you know I'm not a cynic...
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