The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is planning to release on Sept. 9 its review of the impacts on DoD use of GPS – just a few weeks before Ligado plans to go live.
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The White House announcement comes after the FCC indicated it was wading into the murky regulatory waters of space-space services like satellite repair and refueling.
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“Viasat has been undergoing an existential crisis as it competes with SpaceX for the satcom market,” one industry source said.
By Theresa Hitchens“There’s a lot of inefficiencies in the process. But it’s basically a fight, with each community pressing its case to its own regulatory body,” says Jennifer Warren, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for technology, policy and regulation.
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“Rather than imposing specific requirements, SPD-5 affords all government stakeholders a policy framework to implement prudent practices to enhance resilience, including specific efforts to work with the commercial space sector overall and promote information sharing. That’s an improvement from the status quo,” Andrew D’Uva, US industry chair of the Space Force/NSA’s Commercial Space INFOSEC Working Group (CSIWG) says.
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“I’m very confident going forward that we’ve made a decision that is based much more on sound engineering as opposed to some of the fear mongering that we’ve heard,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says.
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Dale Leibach, Keep GPS Working spokesperson, says that already “about one-third — Republicans and Democrats — of the Senate oppose” the Ligado plan.
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Besides shoring up physical defenses against foreign threats, Senate Armed Services chairman Jim Inhofe is fighting against the FCC’s transfer of spectrum from GPS to 5G firm Ligado.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. DoD never entered its own classified testing into the record during the Ligado proceedings, according to FCC chair Ajit Pai, “despite the fact that we have procedures in place for filing classified materials with the FCC — procedures other agencies routinely have followed.”
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“I think we need to recognize that the space domain has evolved over the past several years,” says Secure World Foundation’s Victoria Samson. “And then our governance needs to evolve with that.”
By Theresa Hitchens“We need some coherency around what we’re actually doing on the public policy front, and we need some more technical coordination … so we could at least be at the stage where we’re still on the field, versus sitting on the sidelines trying to figure out how to catch up,” said Brookings fellow Nicol Turner Lee.
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“Trimble does not have, and never had, a ‘coexistence agreement’ with Ligado,” a company spokesperson says.
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“The impact is significant, and it’s unacceptable,” Gen. Jay Raymond told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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“Putting non-maneuverable cubesats into LEO in densely populated orbits … is like putting go-carts on the freeway. Nobody would do that,” says Viasat’s John Janka.
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