Pentagon officials slam FCC's Ligado 5G decision, citing national security risks

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/pentagon-officials-slam-fccs-ligado-5g-decision-citing-national-security-risks.html

WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials on Wednesday slammed a recent Federal Communications Commission decision to allow Ligado to deploy a nationwide mobile broadband network, saying it may disrupt GPS signals crucial to military operations.

“I spent most of my military career, integrating GPS and other space capabilities into everything that we do as a joint force. And today there’s absolutely nothing that we do as a joint force that isn’t enabled by space and specifically GPS,” explained U.S. Space Force Gen. John Raymond in his opening remarks before the Senate Armed Service Committee.

“It [GPS] has revolutionized military operations and it is employed in every step of the kill chain to defeat our adversaries,” the nation’s top military space officer added.

Dana Deasy, the Defense Department’s chief information officer, told the committee that the risk posed by Ligado was significant and unacceptable.

“Ligado and 5G simply do not go together. It is clear to the DoD that the risk to GPS far outweighs the benefits of this FCC decision and the FCC needs to reverse their decision,” Deasy said.

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1. Also interferes with weather data