The US government’s National Institutes of Standards and Technology recently decided to sponsor what appears to be the most comprehensive look to date at the value of GPS technology relative to the US economy as a whole. The results also shed some pretty interesting light on how much of a financial blow would result from a widespread outage of GPS technology, whether it’s the result of malicious activity or something like severe weather in space hampering or destroying satellites.
You can probably guess where this is going.
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Study reveals how screwed we’d be during a GPS outage originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 09:01:06 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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