On December 5, in Houston, Texas, at a gala event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of GPS hosted by the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, Matteo Luccio, Editor-in-Chief of GPS World, interviewed Brad Parkinson.
Only about half of lighthouses serve as active aids to navigation and the U.S. Coast Guard has automated all of them. “The rest,” Wickenden wrote, “have been made obsolete by GPS.”
In the following articles, GPS World is lucky to benefit from the long memories of four gentlemen who were there to witness the birth of the GPS program.
GPS turns 50 this year, marking five decades of transforming the world in ways that have profoundly impacted society. Since its approval as a program on December 17th, 1973, GPS has revolutionized the way we navigate and comprehend our world, often in ways few realize.
By Bradford W. Parkinson Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Emeritus (recalled) Stanford University We, of the PNT universe, have […]
A U.S. Secretary of Defense once predicted that navigation would eventually be based on inertial devices that were […]
What should the new administration’s priorities be to make PNT more resilient? We asked Brad Parkinson, the “Father […]
James D. Litton, GPS pioneer and founder of NavCom Technology Inc., died over the weekend at his home […]
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