DOD switches off GPS selective availability after completing tests

U.S. Air Force controllers were scheduled last night to switch off the scrambling software that has degraded the Global Positioning System signal for civilian users, giving everyone in the world access to the same basic signal the U.S. military uses to guide its precision weapons. President Clinton...

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