WASHINGTON — In a move likely to anger Congress, the defense department announced Sunday that controversial nominee Anthony Tata has been appointed to fill the number two policy job at the Pentagon. The move came just days after the Senate Armed Services Committee scrapped a confirmation hearing for Tata, a retired Army brigadier general and Fox News guest who has been a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, after there was not enough support among Republican senators to push his nomination through. Tata was nominated as undersecretary of defense for policy, the top foreign relations and policy job in the building. […]
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A week before the Federal Communications Commission officially signed off on a plan for Ligado Networks to use L-Band spectrum, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, warning the plan could harm the Global Positioning System. The April missive was the first sign some members of Congress were unhappy with the plan, but it would not be the last, as officials from the departments of defense, transportation and other government agencies raised alarms about how Ligado’s system could damage GPS capability for the military and commercial […]
The Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act contains language attempting to slow the rollout of Ligado network’s use of L-Band spectrum, which defense officials say will harm Global Positioning System capabilities. The bill language, revealed in a summary Thursday, “prohibits the use of DOD funds to comply with the FCC Order on Ligado until the Secretary of Defense submits an estimate of the costs associated with the resulting GPS interference.” It also directs the Secretary of Defense to put the National Academies of Science and Engineering on contract for “an independent technical review of the order to provide additional […]
New support for an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative suggests it’s a lock for the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act. Source link
Several groups want the National Academy of Sciences to review testing data at the heart of the question on whether Ligado’s planned use for spectrum will interfere with GPS. Source link