L3Harris joins advocacy group GPS Innovation Alliance

February 3, 2021

Alliance membership has tripled in past 13 months as the organization grows advocacy for ever-increasing importance of GPS […]

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The Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) in use in 2011. (Photo: U.S. Army)

SMC awards 3 agreements for modernized GPS handheld

July 9, 2020

SMC awards multiple rapid prototyping agreements for joint modernized GPS handheld device; four demonstrations to be held On […]

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Staff Sgt. Reag Wood of 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 5th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, illustrates how he uses an iphone to obtain a visual image of a mock with insurgent activity during a field training exercise at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. (U.S. Army/Lt. Col. Deanna Bague)

Booz Allen awarded $178M GPS modernization contract

February 6, 2020

Company modernize GPS for U.S. Navy and Air Force The U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC Pacific), […]

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L3Harris Technologies merger completed

July 2, 2019

L3Harris Technologies announced the successful completion of the all-stock merger between Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies on June […]

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Drawing of the DSAC mercury-ion trap showing the traps and the titanium vacuum tube that confine the ions. The quadrupole trap is where the hyper-fine transition is optically measured and the multipole trap is where the ions are “interrogated” by a microwave signal via a waveguide from the quartz oscillator. (Image: NASA.)

Mercury-ion atomic clock holds promise for greater GPS accuracy

June 10, 2019

The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is readying for an ultra-precise atomic clock that could not only […]

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Tell us the future: State of the Industry survey open for input

June 4, 2019

What technical and business challenges are getting your attention this year? What are the most important benefits of, […]

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PNT Advisory Board to discuss protecting GPS

May 22, 2019

The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board has scheduled a meeting for June 6-7 at […]

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Army Stryker ground combat vehicle. (Photo: Karolis Kavolelis / Shutterstock.com)

New military code about to board 700+ platforms

April 9, 2019

Rolling out Military Code Much development has been necessary to enable the new M-code capability on more than […]

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