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.

The project that NAL, SGM and Tschudi are working on will deploy and test the systems on commercial ships. The tests will use ...

Swift Navigation has landed a major cash support from a group of investors supporting the company's precise location ...

/ The Undependable Global Positioning System does not believe in God, because it believes in satellites and in particle physics and entrepreneurship. / Use at your own risk, you tourists of oblivion.

Galileo, a European rival to military global positioning systems operated by the United States and Russia, will be able to locate objects or people to within 16.4 ft. (5 m).

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a technology that can provide location inputs to a GIS system, to be added to other inputs such as satellite imagery and topographic maps.

To learn more about how GPS calculations are done, check out “How Global Positioning Systems Work” by Ron White and Tim Downs. You’ll find some useful and informative diagrams, too.

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 remarka… ...

New cutting-edge science into how lightning affects Earth’s upper atmosphere could help the U.S. military fend off hostile GPS (global positioning system) attacks, say researchers at the ...