DOT IG urges FAA to keep backup navigation system before switching to GPS.

DOT Inspector General Kenneth Mead joined those urging FAA to keep a backup navigation system, given the "uncertainties relating to interference [with GPS signals] from unintentional and intentional" sources. Mead told Congress it "would be prudent to assume a need for some type of backup system for...

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