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Rebooting the Pentagon
In 2006 Raj Shah was a captain in the US Air Force, piloting an F-16 fighter jet during the insurgency phase of the Iraq War. Not long into his tour of duty, he noticed a problem with the display screen in his cockpit: the signal from GPS satellites let …