GPS

  • If your GPS has ever made you take a wrong turn, you know having a proper address is important. But currently, federal, state, local and private organizations collect that information individually. No national, authorized registry of addresses even exists. That's why the Transportation Department wants to build it — a single, unified national database of addresses. Steve Lewis is the department's chief geospatial information officer. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the project.

    July 30, 2015
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been at the forefront of some of the most innovative technologies ever created — including the Internet. But as budgets tighten, the agency's director says she's trying to figure out how to deal with an increasingly complex threat environment as less money flows into the research and development pipeline.

    April 29, 2013
  • As a public-private partnership, the NextGen Equipage Fund, LLC will bring substantial private-sector capital to overcome the investment barriers that have prevented many air carriers and other operators from investing in the NextGen technologies for their aircraft. ITT\'s John Kefaliotis explains.

    April 18, 2011
  • University of Texas researcher successfully spoofs GPS timing signals which could incapacitate the base stations used by Sprint and Verizon.

    October 19, 2010
  • Learn more about the DOT\'s research currently underway when Dr. Robert Bertini, the acting director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems program at DOT, talks to Federal News Radio.

    September 07, 2010
  • NASA and its partners are making an effort to save both time and lives with new technology.

    May 29, 2010
  • GPS. It’s way more than mapquest. Companies worldwide use GPS to time-stamp business transactions, providing a consistent and accurate way to maintain records and ensure their traceability. Investment banks use GPS to synchronize their network…

    April 03, 2009