GPS.gov: GPS Overview - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Feb 22, 2021 · What is GPS? The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S.-owned utility that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. This system consists of three segments: the space segment, the control segment, and the user segment.
GPS: The Global Positioning System
Sep 17, 2024 · Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
News Items - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Apr 27, 2023 · Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
GPS.gov: What's New - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Jun 21, 2023 · The 2024 GPS Testing for Critical Infrastructure (GET-CI) event is set for the fall of 2024. (Apr 12) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board.
GPS.gov: Applications - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Nov 25, 2014 · GPS technology is now in everything from cell phones and wristwatches to bulldozers, shipping containers, and ATM's. GPS boosts productivity across a wide swath of the economy, to include farming, construction, mining, surveying, package delivery, and logistical supply chain management.
GPS.gov: GPS Governance - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
GPS.gov: GPS Modernization - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Nov 3, 2017 · The GPS modernization program is an ongoing, multibillion-dollar effort to upgrade the features and overall performance of the Global Positioning System. The upgraded features include new civilian and military GPS signals. Learn more about a specific aspect of GPS modernization: Space Segment; Control Segment; New Civil Signals
GPS.gov: GPS Performance - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Sep 24, 2024 · Official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
Department of Defense - GPS: The Global Positioning System
Jul 22, 2024 · Develops, acquires, operates, sustains, and secures the Global Positioning System, including the satellites, control segment, and military user equipment. Co-chairs the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing and its subordinate bodies.
GPS.gov: "How GPS Works" Poster - GPS: The Global Positioning …
Aug 24, 2020 · This educational poster, produced in 2013, explains the basic concepts behind the Global Positioning System. It is aimed at science and math students in middle school and high school, as well as the general public.