With the final GPS III satellite scheduled to launch in March, the United States is completing the most significant upgrade to its positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure in more than ...

Our widespread reliance on a vulnerable technology should be a wake-up call. A single sustained outage could cost the U.S.

Today, the President accepted the recommendation of the Department of Defense to end procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites that have the capability to intentionally degrade the ...

Thirty years ago this month marks one of the most significant technological achievements in modern history, an advance that has reshaped our daily lives and our sense of security, and opened the gates ...

computer software converts it into information that can be usefully displayed for a user, such as position coordinates, or input to another type of user equipment, such as an inertial navigation ...

Think GPS runs the world? China's BeiDou is a fast-rising rival with military and disaster uses, plus a rapidly expanding ...

Markus Lutz is CTO and Founder of SiTime Corporation. He is a MEMS expert, a prolific entrepreneur and inventor who holds over 100 patents. From communications networks to location services, we rely ...

Definition The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses a network of satellites to provide electronic signals that enable a receiver to accurately determine its position anywhere on Earth. The satellites ...

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

NavIC stands for Navigation with Indian Constellation. It is also called IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System). NavIC is an alternative to the American Global Positioning System (GPS) ...