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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Wartime surge production of supplies
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Date: 19 Nov 90 00:27:59 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)

Can't speak to the weapons that Doug asked about, but...
I do know several Loran and GPS receiver vendors that are cranking
out receivers as fast as they can.  And the Loran receivers all
have the Saudi chain data in their coordinate converters.

Coupled with this, DoD quietly turned off selective availability
in August throughout the GPS system.  As the rephasing proceeds
and the launch schedule goes (no recent hitches), two dimensional
coverage, 24 hours, is not far away.  

Guess the point is that commercial technology is filling a decidedly
military need and there are multiple production lines to fill
the surge requirements.

Out year question.  DoD's funding for high rate production of p-code
GPS receivers (the ones that can accomodate selective availability)
just got deferred....for the fourth time.  At the same time that
the operational forces are getting large quantities of commercial
GPS receivers.  Will DoD ever get selective availability turned
back on?

Rex Buddenberg