The mid-20 th century revealed a truly disruptive shift in technologies for long-distance positioning and navigation. The compass, sextant, and clock were largely superseded by electronic system, ...

Boeing Defense Space and Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $311,805,780 ceiling increase modification to previously awarded contract for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits.

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Sept. 18, 2013) -- When preparing to face a more talented opponent, coaches tell their players that the path to victory is pulling together as a team to somehow obtain more ...

The U.S. military has been looking for new ways to reduce its heavy reliance on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide precision guidance and navigation for munitions. Military planners worry ...

The functions of guidance, navigation, and control are vital to all forms of air and space flight. The Space History collections in this area attempt to reflect that significance and illustrate the ...

Compact weapons need compact guidance systems. Atlantic Inertial Systems, a unit of Goodrich Corp., designed a 1-cu.-in. inertial measurement device called MinIM. The component weighs less than 2 oz., ...

The latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio ...

CHARLES DRAPER, WHOSE EPONYMOUS LABORATORY developed the guidance systems for Apollo spacecraft, referred to inertial navigation as “astronomy in a closet.” It is based on a celestial reference system ...

Draper Laboratory has been the design agent for all U.S. Navy strategic guidance systems since Polaris and for the U.S. Air Force Peacekeeper missile guidance system. In addition, Draper has designed ...