The mission is AFRL's first major PNT demonstration since 1977, when it launched NTS-2 - a satellite that helped shaped the ...

WASHINGTON — An already delayed U.S. Space Force effort to develop a modern, cybersecure GPS ground system is facing new schedule setbacks. The service is re-evaluating the delivery schedule for the ...

The Pentagon has launched its first experimental navigation satellite in nearly five decades, aiming to test out a new ...

“The Boeing ground control system, known as the Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP), was deployed seamlessly in September 2007 and has the technical flexibility to operate not only the oldest GPS ...

The entire U.S. economy rests on a single point of failure,” writes Jerald Fritz, “and its loss would be catastrophic.” ...

In a series of small ceremonies, the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday shut down Loran-C, a navigation and timing system that has guided mariners and aviators since World War II. The death blow came last May ...

Upgrades for the whole ground system are also in development and will be deployed at Schriever in 2025, Menschner said. "That'll be the largest transition for GPS in decades," he said.

A ground-based system would be much more flexible and accurate than GPS -- but the trade-off is that you need to blanket the Earth in hundreds or thousands of transmitters, which are expensive to ...

A $6.1 billion Raytheon Technologies Corp. system of 17 worldwide ground stations to control the Pentagon’s GPS satellite constellation has newly discovered software flaws, delaying its delivery ...

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11, 2007 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that it has been selected to participate in the development of the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) ground ...