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Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Time Issues Affecting the Global Positioning System

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 12, 1999
Report No. T-AIMD-99-187
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Summary:

The Global Positioning System, in addition to being the military's primary radionavigation system, has become crucial to many civilian applications and industries, including emergency services, airlines services, commercial fishing and shipping, corporate vehicle fleet tracking, and surveying. The system also plays an important role in communications networks and the Internet. This testimony discusses the threat posed to the Global Positioning System by the Year 2000 computing problem and the way that the system keeps track of time.

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