The Ripple Effects of the Shutdown Reach the GPS System (and
Beyond)

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/01/ripple-effects-shutdown-reach-gps-system-and-beyond/580246/

Your readers might be interested in a little-known but serious
consequence of the government shutdown: the loss of the public CORS data
supplied by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see
https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/).

I work for a company that uses CORS data to apply real-time kinematics to
vehicle GPS readings. The same CORS data is also used for surveying, GPS-guided
farming, and a host of other applications. All of them will now be forced to
rely on private data that may not cover all areas and whose quality may vary.
The NOAA data, by contrast, comes from a unique public-private partnership that
has very wide coverage. It's also accessible to academic institutions and
startups.