Global Positioning System Reference
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Fig. 4.3. Col. Bradford W. Parkinson, first manager of the Joint Program Office, about a
year before he retired from the Air Force. (usaf photograph)
[Navigation Satellite Management Office] were 1) Technically sound and 2)
Would indeed satisfy the requirements that the synthesized Global Position
System was the product of the navseg joint service program and its support-
ing joint services navsmo staff.”21
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Keith McDonald, who headed navsmo, which provided technical and admin-
istrative support to navseg, has written that the Air Force Space and Missile
Systems Organization (samso) “appropriate[d] the product of navseg's con-
cept development effort.” In a telephone interview he observed that the final
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