GPS / eLoran News

December 4, 2009 - from GPS World

The Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services on December 2 sent the following letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the head of the U.S. Coast Guard in support of the Loran service.

The letter strongly supports completion and operation of the North American Enhanced Loran (eLoran) system, as well as continuation of the Loran‐C signal in the interim; Secretary Napolitano is weighing termination of both programs. The letter asserts that It can not be accurately certified that termination of the operation of the Loran‐C signal will not adversely impact the safety of maritime navigation - counter to opinions recently issued by the U.S. Coast Guard Commandant. Finally, the letter affirms that the Loran‐C infrastructure is needed to complete the eLoran system to serve as a backup to the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS).

President, Congress Abandon National Infrastructure
November 10, 2009
By: Alan Cameron

Teams in the National Football League have backups. The United States government, military, financial network, wireless communication, and transportation infrastructures do not. Having ridden to election in part on the back of the previous administration's lack of readiness for and response to natural disaster, the Obama administration and Democratic Congress seem willing, if not eager, to commit the same egregious errors of their own.

"What the General meant to say was..." This Henny Youngmanish one-liner has probably been around the military for as long as there have been general officers and those that endeavor to protect them from themselves. I am not picking on generals because certainly we all misspeak from time to time; it is just that generals and presidents do it more often in public forums.