As Sam Metheny, the NAB‘s Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer since 2014, contends, there’s a critical issue facing our nation’s infrastructure that needs to be addressed: “the vulnerability of GPS and the need for a secure, terrestrial alternative.”
In a blog post shared by the association on Friday, Metheny speaks of the “fragility” of the satellite-based global positioning system, one that Diamond Consulting principal Patrick Diamond says has no backup.