DOT Should Terminate Further LORAN-C Development and Modernization and Exploit the Potential of the NAVSTAR/Global Positioning System.

Abstract

The U.S. Coast Guard is planning to modernize its existing LORAN-C navigation system, even though LORAN-C can potentially be replaced by the Department of Defense's NAVSTAR/Global Positioning System (GPS) in the early 1990s. The Coast Guard and the Research and Special Programs Administration have also devoted little effort to evaluating and developing GPS' capability as a civil marine and land navigation system. Because LORAN-C can be effectively maintained and reliably operated at least until the early 1990s and because the Coast Guard has not been able to validly demonstrate the cost effectiveness of the replacement program on a station-by-station basis, GAO recommends that the Coast Guard terminate its planned replacement of existing LORAN-C equipment. GAO also recommends that the Coast Guard discontinue developing new LORAN-C applications and focus efforts and resources on demonstrating GPS' potential as a marine and land navigation system. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 18, 1981
Accession Number
ADA107768

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coast Guard
  • Congress
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electron Tubes
  • Federal Budgets
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Governments
  • Land Navigation
  • Loran
  • Marine Navigation
  • Navigation
  • Navigational Equipment
  • Procurement
  • Radio Navigation
  • Transportation
  • Urban Areas

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space