The House passed its measure to protect the financial rights of US service members in June. The Senate, on the other hand, has been waiting for the just released Government Accountability report that basically says it is high time to safeguard troops from deceptive financial practices. (Read our coverage of the House action here.) The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs took up the matter at a hearing Nov. 17.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.