A bad news for Trimble, they has received 10,000 claims from US military. It can be happen because a lot of their GPS receivers software is not working. Based on the Air Force report, some of the applications is dead and the invention says, those 10,000 receivers were not tested yet with the new software and this problem which make its temporary GPS loss. Hearing this, Trimble claimed that they already tested the software based on the specs regulation.

The Air Force has not said how many weapons, planes or other systems were affected or whether any were in use in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the problem, blamed on incompatible software, highlights the military’s reliance on the Global Positioning System and the need to protect technology that has become essential for protecting troops, tracking vehicles and targeting weapons.

The problem occurred when new software was installed in ground control systems for GPS satellites on Jan. 11, the Air Force said.

Officials said between 8,000 at 10,000 receivers could have been affected, out of more than 800,000 in use across the military.

Source Yahoo News!

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