DARPA Eyes ‘Very Low Frequency’ Signals For PNT Systems as GPS Backup – Govt. Executive Magazine

June 17, 2016

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June 16, 2016

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to demonstrate a positioning, navigation and timing system that will use very low frequency band signals as backup in case military forces lose access to GPS networks.

Lin Haas, DARPA strategic technology officer, discussed the Spatial, Temporal and Orientation Information in Contested Environments project at DARPA Demo Day, the U.S. Army said May 19.

 

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