DARPA pursuing global positioning system alternatives
June 5, 2018
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to develop alternative positioning, navigation and timing capabilities. National Defense reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
5 June 2018 -- Dave Tremper, a program manager at the DARPA Strategic Technology Office, says relying solely on GPS provides users with a single point of failure.
“GPS is so good that it’s kind of knocked all of the other players off the field,†he says. “What happens when it’s not there and what happens when your system still needs that degree of timing and you still need that degree of position?"
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/pt/2018/06/darpa-pursuing-global-positioning-system-alternatives.html
