GPS and World Navigation

How the GPS Gained Funding by the Division of Protection is the story of the chief of the Rockwell Worldwide’s (now Boeing) World Positioning System (GPS) engineering groups and subcontractors that overpowered the overwhelming factions within the Air Power and its contractor, Lockheed Missiles and Area Firm administration and personnel that wished GPS to fail and the way the creator created a brand new know-how that allowed every Boeing’s GPS satellite tv for pc’s atomic clocks to function at their peak efficiency throughout each U.S. and worldwide group’s multi-service system extensive testing together with NATO’s. This brought about Boeing’s GPS satellite tv for pc’s efficiency to exceed all expectations and the identical know-how is used at the moment within the design of the brand new Lockheed Martin/Air Power F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner business plane. An settlement by Boeing of the occasions on this ebook will lead to a declare by the U.S. Air Power for $55M for Boeing’s SV-7/NAVSTAR 5 and $20M for the Atlas F that launched SV-7 as a result of just one yr of use previous to its avoidable loss in its 3.5 yr mission life.