A New Flexible Global Positioning System (GPS) Constellation Sustainment Strategy

by David B. Goldstein

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is now a global utility. The United States Air Force is the steward responsible for sustaining and modernizing the constellation. The current launch-to-sustain strategy implemented by the Air Force is not flexible, does not effectively support GPS modernization, and it does not lend itself to a future responsive launch paradigm.

42 pages, Paperback

First published September 24, 2012

About the author

David B. Goldstein is a critic, poet, food writer, and Associate Professor at York University in Toronto. His publications include Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England, the poetry collections Object Permanence (UDP), Lost Originals and Laws of Rest, and two co-edited essay collections.