The Federal Communications Fee (FCC) plans to vote on an inquiry to discover alternate options to GPS, FCC chair Brendan Carr says in a blog post.
Carr says that whereas GPS has been “indispensable,” the know-how “isn’t infallible” and that “disruptions to GPS have the potential to undermine the nation’s financial and nationwide safety.” Carr says that “we have to develop redundant applied sciences,” which is why the FCC will “vote on an inquiry to discover different Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) programs” that may function “enhances or alternate options” to GPS.
Along with GPS, Carr additionally says the fee will vote on two proposals concerning 911 know-how. One is “a proposal to replace our present guidelines to make sure the resiliency, reliability, interoperability, and accessibility” of “Subsequent Era 911,” or NG911, which is internet-connected emergency tech that may finally exchange legacy 911 programs.
One other is a proposal to “strengthen our 911 location accuracy guidelines” to doubtlessly enhance the data first responders obtain about an individual’s location, together with the power to extra precisely discover callers on particular flooring in buildings.
The problems are tentatively on the agenda for the FCC’s open assembly on March 27th.