America is too dependent on tech developed owned and operated by the american military?!

the fuck?

And this is why the EU should have ignored the US when they whined that our Gallileo system used different frequencies from GPS.

As it stands now Gallileo was built to using frequencies that the US can jam using GPS.

Most receivers already use GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and beidou.

GPS isn't just for google maps. I'm a land surveyor and we literally use GPS every single day. Without it we're basically fucked. We do hydrographic surveying and without GPS we'd have to basically go back to analog as 90% of the equipment on our boat would be useless. Good luck figuring out how much water is left in the Colorado river without it.

Im not exactly an expert on this, but i am very familiar with what my job requires. The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will be completely fucked without it as it's built on decades of data and monitoring. You can't just look for "alternatives." Whatever Elmo has is not robust enough for the precision that is required for what we use GPS for. And without shit like that you couldn't hit the broad side of a city.

https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/

GPS? You mean the technology that we as a country collective maintain? And have continued to maintain since it's immediate inception?

Yeah, ok.

Call me when you start using glonass.

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Who's "We"? The Government?

"Government is too reliant on Government?" (GPS is run by the US Government)

So they want to rely less on government, but relying on a corporation.

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That's weird, I always viewed GPS as a form of American Imperialism. Sure, it's a bit extreme maybe, but America does own and operate it and jam it when enemies try to use it.