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Alex Damato is acting executive director or the GPS Innovation Alliance.

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GPS technology helps communities across the globe Posted on 17 Apr 2023 in the Featured Stories & Featured Stories & From the Magazine & Opinions categories.

GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA) members improve the industries that feed, build, move and connect communities across the globe. Read more»

GPS Technologies Enable an Accessible World Posted on 25 Jan 2023 in the Featured Stories & From the Magazine & Opinions categories.

Through navigation devices, adaptable software, and mobility aids, GPS technology has become a vital part of accessibility efforts to support people with hearing loss, deafness, or visual impairments. Read more»

GPS interference harms the economy, national security and everyday people Posted on 09 Nov 2022 in the From the Magazine & Opinions categories.

By Alex Damato Acting Executive Director GPS Innovation Alliance From its humble beginnings in the 1970s to its expanded use in the present day, GPS technology has been vital for... Read more»

Lifesaving GPS technology aids in natural disasters Posted on 29 Aug 2022 in the From the Magazine & Opinions & UAV/UGV categories.

By Alex Damato, Acting Executive Director, GPS Innovation Alliance It can be easy to take GPS for granted as the average driver and smartphone user continues to enjoy convenience, entertainment... Read more»

Surveying the innovation of GPSIA members Posted on 06 Jun 2022 in the From the Magazine & Opinions categories.

In the decades since the U.S. GPS became fully operational, GPS has become a highly innovative, successful and increasingly ubiquitous technology critical to applications and services touching the lives of... Read more»

GPS in an era of global competition Posted on 02 Apr 2022 in the Featured Stories & From the Magazine & Opinions categories.

By Alex Damato Acting Executive Director, GPS Innovation Alliance  Innovation is the watchword in Washington this year. Amidst an ongoing supply-chain crisis and rising global trade tensions, policymakers have put... Read more»