Global Positioning System jamming is on the rise, highlighting risks to the U.S. economy from financial systems to civilian ...

Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) announced today the official launch of Satellite Time and Location (STL), an alternative or companion to traditional location-based technologies, and declared it ...

From the first time I used a Hertz GPS navigation system in lieu of a paper map on the front passenger’s seat, I have found the technology to be an almost indispensable tool. Its adoption over the ...

In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System they used to navigate was going ...

Over 7 billion devices worldwide, including nearly 900 million in the United States, use GPS technology developed in the country on a daily basis. The GPS is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation ...

One of the fundamental technologies of modern gadgets is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Using signals from satellites orbiting the earth, a GPS receiver can pin down its location with remarkable ...

For decades, the United States has had a monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing technology with its Global Positioning System (GPS), a constellation of satellites operated by the military that ...

There were strange doings this week as Dallas-Forth Worth Airport in Texas experienced two consecutive days of GPS outages. The problem first cropped up on the 17th, as the Federal Aviation ...

Indoor positioning system technology uses radio, ultrasound or infrared signals to more precisely track locations where GPS signals are blocked Global positioning system (GPS) technology—now found in ...

Global Positioning System, GPS, originally was designed for military and intelligence applications until 1983. GPS, a satellite-based navigation system, is designed to locate user exact position ...

Definition The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses a network of satellites to provide electronic signals that enable a receiver to accurately determine its position anywhere on Earth. The satellites ...

Every 19 years, the Global Positioning System resets a measure of time built into its program. The latest rollover is Saturday and NPR's Scott Simon asks cybersecurity expert Frank Cilluffo about it.