May 6, 2020

WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials on Wednesday slammed a recent Federal Communications Commission decision to allow Ligado to deploy a nationwide mobile broadband network, saying it may disrupt GPS signals crucial to military operations.

“I spent most of my military career, integrating GPS and other space capabilities into everything that we do as a joint force. And today there’s absolutely nothing that we do as a joint force that isn’t enabled by space and specifically GPS,” explained U.S. Space Force Gen. John Raymond in his opening remarks before the Senate Armed Service Committee.

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