The GPS Wing and 2SOPS (2nd Space Operations Squadron) initiated a software update of the ground command and control (C2) system for GPS on January 11, 2010. The update has not gone as smoothly as planned, and the second of two NANUs has now appeared.More>>

The abstract submission deadline for the JSDE/ION Joint Navigation Conference (JNC) has been extended to February 19. The JSDE/ION Joint Navigation Conference is a positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) conference for the U.S. joint services, Department of Defense, and the Department of...More>>

Anthony J. Russo has been named director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. He began serving in that post on January 19. More>>

Article By : Don Jewell

Numbers and geometry matter where GPS is concerned, and many of you have read these words in many of my columns or heard them in my presentations. Fortunately the U.S. military must have been listening as well, because just last week the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command General Chilton approved ...More>>

Article By : David Last

The most widely used of all GPS devices are in-car navigators. When vehicles carrying navigators are used for criminal purposes, records contained in the devices may be examined. Such investigations rely on newly developed forensic techniques that employ a combination of computer expertise and...More>>

Article By : Tracy Cozzens

GPS technology helped the U.S. Air Force take out al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi in a June 14 airstrike. GPS provides the precision timing and navigation absolutely instrumental in both protecting our troops on the ground and taking out the bad guys, said an Air Force brigadier general.More>>