Congressmen demand answers after Pentagon issues GPS warning

C4ISRNET:  The chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has teamed up with the chairman of the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee to demand answers from the Federal Communications Commission on whether reallocating a band of spectrum will damage the Global Positioning System, or GPS, as the Pentagon claims.

C4ISRNET published a report on the afternoon of April 10 that the FCC intends to approve Ligado Network, formerly Lightsquard, to operate in L-Band, a region of spectrum near where the Defense Department’s GPS system.

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