A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

Thanks to GPS, your car, your phone, even your watch knows exactly where you are on the planet, by listening to a satellite signal from 12,000 miles over your head. GPS is always on, you don't pay ...

M-code is more resistant to jamming, and its encryption makes it more difficult to spoof, a kind of attack that makes ...

Integral Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISYS) , announced today that it has submitted a proposal to deliver an integrated, advanced command and control solution for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next ...

Today, the President accepted the recommendation of the Department of Defense to end procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites that have the capability to intentionally degrade the ...

Our widespread reliance on a vulnerable technology should be a wake-up call. A single sustained outage could cost the U.S.

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

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The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System they used to navigate ...

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 University of ...

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 ...