Far above your head, constellations of satellites are working constantly to provide the positioning, navigation, and timing systems that quietly run modern life. Known as the global navigation ...

Advanced Navigation has released the Boreas 50 series, marking the company’s smallest fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS). The new product line consists of two devices, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Australian quantum ...

To keep up with the ever-changing technology of today, military officials and crews in the private sector are in the process of bolstering its navigation system. More specifically, U.S. Army leaders ...

A US military space-plane, the X-37B orbital test vehicle, is due to embark on its eighth flight into space on August 21 2025. Much of what the X-37B does in space is secret. But it serves partly as a ...

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...

A team of researchers at Q-CTRL, a quantum infrastructure software company based in Sydney, Australia, has completed a successful demonstration of a new quantum navigation system called Ironstone Opal ...