Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

Swift Navigation has landed $50 million from a group of investors. The company's Skylark Precision Location software improves GPS accuracy. Global positioning systems, or GPS, are great for helping to ...

The new embedded GPS/INS (EGI-M) system will allow operation in GPS-contested and GPS-denied environments. Northrop Grumman has successfully tested in flight the new Embedded Global Positioning System ...

DARPA has unveiled its plan for the future, and it includes a brand new global positioning, navigation, and timing system (GPS) that doesn't depend on satellites. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

The global Dynamic Positioning System (DPS) Market is entering a decade of remarkable transformation. Valued at USD 115.3 billion in 2025, the market is projected to reach USD 327.4 billion by 2035, ...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command accepted a modernized operating system for Global Positioning System. Credit: Illustration by John Ayre, U.S. Space Force WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space ...

Beijing has pledged to accelerate the global adoption of its home-grown BeiDou satellite navigation system, an alternative to the US-run Global Positioning System (GPS) that already dominates China’s ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon a $379.7 million contract extension to continue development of the long-delayed Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), a critical software ...

THE NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, commonly known as GPS, is familiar to many smartphone users as the technology behind the blue location dot on map apps. But GPS, which is operated by the ...