Help GPS resiliency against Russia with this one simple change

A recent article in the New York Times has far-reaching and ominous implications for the United States. It reports on findings from researchers at the University of Texas that Russian satellites have been purposely interfering with GPS signals across a broad swath of northern Europe, Greenland and Canada since 2019. 

These interference events are evidence of an electronic weapon being covertly exercised. They have been sporadic, very short duration, slightly offset from the main GPS signal, and very difficult to detect. The same satellites have been interfering with Bei Dou, China’s satellite navigation system in a nearly identical way since 2020. This seems to remove any doubt as to the Russian system’s intent and purpose.

While similar events have not been observed in the U.S., the Russian satellites are able to reach anywhere on the globe. And Moscow has a history of interfering and threatening to interfere with GPS to further its own goals. 

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