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DARPA Pursuing Global Positioning System Alternatives

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to develop alternative positioning, navigation and timing capabilities. Dave Tremper, a program manager at the agency’s strategic technology office, said 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

US Air Force Wants to Plasma Bomb the Sky Using Tiny Satellites

Can you hear me now? The US Air Force is working on plans to improve radio communication over long distances by detonating plasma bombs in the upper atmosphere using a fleet of micro satellites. Since the early days of radio, we’ve known that reception is sometimes better at night. Radio stations that cannot be picked