The business and national security implications of a Global Positioning Satellite system failure would be too enormous to bear, and as a result, the prediction made in a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report is unlikely to come to pass, a Gartner research analyst who follows the industry told TechNewsWorld on Wednesday. However, businesses that depend on the service would be well-served by taking steps to prepare for an outage anyway, Thilo Koslowski said.
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GAO-Predicted GPS Failure Could Have Drastic Consequences
Posted by: Mike Pearson May 20, 2009 12:07 PMThe business and national security implications of a Global Positioning Satellite system failure would be too enormous to bear, and as a result, the prediction made in a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report is unlikely to come to pass, a Gartner research analyst who follows the industry told TechNewsWorld on Wednesday. However, businesses that depend on the service would be well-served by taking steps to prepare for an outage anyway, Thilo Koslowski said.