GPS is the principal source of positioning, navigation, and timing information for the U.S. military and its partners. The Department of Defense (DOD) has worked for more than 2 decades to modernize ...

WASHINGTON — The goals of the U.S. Defense Department’s $22 billion GPS modernization effort could be accomplished more quickly and at less cost than currently expected by allocating more resources to ...

Why do you see the need to modernize GPS? For many lay users, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are simply there, reliably guiding them and their systems to do the right thing in the right ...

The eighth Boeing [NYSE: BA] Global Positioning System IIF satellite has completed on-orbit checkout and joined the active 31-satellite constellation, helping the U.S. Air Force continue modernizing ...

U.S. Army Reserve combat engineers from the 374th Engineer Company (Sapper), of Concord, Calif., write down and program their grid coordinates using a Defense Advanced GPS receiver during a team-based ...

Soldiers with the 804th Transportation Detachment, Tacoma, Washington, the 180th Transportation Company, Muskegon, Michigan, and 3 Canadian Division Support Group Det Wainwright practice using GPS ...

No audio available for this content. Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded an order to support embedded GPS/inertial navigation system (INS) pre-Phase 1 modernization efforts. The Military GPS ...

Kym is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. With assured PNT (A-PNT) as the end goal, the Pentagon and ...

The Pentagon has canceled its long-delayed $8 billion Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) for GPS after persistent technical issues, including a critical software defect. The Space Force ...

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Jan. 6 (UPI) --Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System modernization. Under the $4.8 million contract, awarded by ...

SpaceX has launched the final satellite in the U.S. Space Force’s GPS III constellation, completing a decade-long modernization of the navigation network. The GPS III-8 SV10 mission, nicknamed ‘Hedy ...

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military’s most ...