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Gps

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Clinton administration plans to make a military satellite system more available for civilian uses. Currently, the Pentagon scrambles signals from its Global Positioning System for security reasons. But there's been a growing push to unscramble the signals for a variety of uses, including airplane navigation.

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