After 16 years and $8B, the military's new GPS software still doesn't work

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/after-16-years-and-8-billion-the-militarys-new-gps-software-still-doesnt-work/

by strongpigeon • 4 months ago

13 4 4 months ago

It's interesting that we're so afraid of cancelling projects because it's seen as wasteful...and yet deeper we march into the swamp.

scrubs• 4 months ago

Sometimes I think the US federal government has too much money. The management function is to say yes to resources in set A and no to everything else. Now, if there's too much money so |A| can grow quite big, you don't have to be good at management anymore to pay for A. Same thing on munitions. Does every damn thing need to be $100k+? Maybe the Pentagon needs less cash.

Our ability as Americans to run large complex projects sucks apart from nasa and a few national labs.

pseudohadamard• 4 months ago

That's fine, we've got Gallileo and BeiDou now so don't really need GPS that much any more. BeiDou-3 doesn't seem to have the same problems that GPS-III does.

inemesitaffia• 4 months ago

This is a ground component of GPS that assists in getting better fixed and works if GPS is lost.

It's like GPS next but the "next" part isn't working.

After 16 years and $8B, the military's new GPS software still doesn't work

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