Global Positioning System Control/User Segments. Volume IV. Cost Effectiveness Criteria.
Abstract
Because navigation and positioning are intermediate steps in accomplishing various user missions, the objectives of the Global Positioning System (GPS) are necessarily broad and only indirectly related to specific military goals. When the GPS is operationally available, it will replace many of the navigational and positioning aids presently used by the military services. By eliminating much of the proliferation of systems, GPS will reduce the total DoD costs of providing these functions. This is one objective of the GPS program. However, another very important objective is improved accuracy. The GPS will provide continuous worldwide positioning capability of a precision greatly exceeding anything available today. The potential military value of this capability can be expressed in improved mission effectiveness for coordinate bombing, rendezvous, mapping, reconnaissance and targeting, etc. This improved effectiveness can also be considered a cost savings in that it will allow smaller force levels for equivalent effectiveness, or yield greater capability for existing force levels. In either case the GPS will yield an overall savings through its improved precision in addition to the direct cost savings projected for the navigation function itself.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 28, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0921526
Entities
Organizations
- General Dynamics