Global Positioning System
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ARPA-H is modeled after the military-focused DARPA, which spawned the internet and the global positioning system, commonly known as GPS.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023
The global positioning system, for example, provides navigation services to the military as well as civilians.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2019
But you’d probably still be surprised at all the things that GPS—the global positioning system that underlies all of modern navigation—can do.
From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2019
The programs are like a global positioning system app on a smartphone — helpful but not perfect.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018
This was mainly because the global positioning system, which can be used to guide munitions to their target, was being jammed, while the rival Russian version, called GLONASS, was not then ready for use.
From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2015
