The business and national security implications of a Global Positioning Satellite system failure would be too enormous to bear, and as a result, the prediction made in a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report is unlikely to come to pass, a Gartner research analyst who follows the industry told TechNewsWorld on Wednesday. However, businesses that depend on the service would be well-served by taking steps to prepare for an outage anyway, Thilo Koslowski said.
