[IGSMAIL-5774]: U.S. Federal Register Notice on Semi-Codeless GPS Access

[Jim.Ray]

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IGS Electronic Mail      16 May 07:56:34 PDT 2008      Message Number 5774
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Author: Jim Ray (forward of Dept. of Commerce notice)

On 16 May 2008, the Office of Space Commercialization
published a notice in the U.S. Federal Register
requesting public comments (from U.S. and non-U.S.)
on the U.S. Government's plan to phase out codeless
and semi-codeless access to GPS by 31 December 2020.
The government seeks to encourage the civilian user
community to migrate to new GPS equipment utilizing
the next-generation signals known as L2C and L5, as
well as the current L1C/A.

The deadline for submitting comments is 16 June 2008.
All comments received will be posted for public
viewing. The Office of Space Commercialization will
review all comments received by the submission
deadline and use them to inform ongoing government
discussions regarding the transition plan for
codeless and semi-codeless GPS access.

Information about this notice is online at
http://www.space.commerce.gov/gps/semicodeless/ .