The Evolution of GPS in the Civilian World

This section examines the U.S. government’s public responses to the growing
number of civil users, the role of government agencies and other private-sector
agents in fostering commercial GPS markets, and present GPS governance and
management. With the proliferation of civil government and private-sector
users and the widening array of commercial GPS applications, the U.S.
government is having to juggle a growing set of civilian demands on the system
along with the military demands.This has given rise to a number of issues
discussed here and in Chapter Two.