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NextNav: GPS Backup Promises $14.6 Billion in Economic Benefits

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The report also introduced an “insurance premium” estimate, which valued the financial benefit of NextNav's proposed system as $10.8   GPS – the Global Positioning System – is a U.S.-owned, billion over 20 years. 

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Joe Supan: The Rise and Inevitable Downfall of 7,000 Starlink Satellites

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"The digital divide is fundamentally tied to inequality," says Christopher Ali , professor of telecommunications at Penn State University. "We "We often think that it's an infrastructure issue, which is the case in rural and remote and Indigenous communities, but the reason most people don't have internet is price."

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Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency

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As noted in a National Security Space Association  report , China and Russia already have terrestrial complements to space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), decades after the U.S. originally invented the Global Positioning System (GPS). Then we must toughen GPS signals against attacks.