Notes de l'Ifri - Galileo and the Profit Motive: How to make Europe's future satellite navigation system most beneficial? Note de l'Ifri, March 2007.

At a time when negotiations between partners in the Galileo Concession are so difficult, it seems urgent to optimize the Galileo business case by identifying new applications for the system's five signals. This Note tries to assess ways to enhance Galileo's future profits. The principle of best value for money demands, for instance, that the government signal PRS be used by European military customers, as well as other government users.