After 16 years and $8 billion, the military’s new GPS software still doesn’t work

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military’s most ...
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Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works

We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when the GPS glitches and you miss an exit on the highway. The team at Tern AI, which is building a low-cost GPS alternative, says that’s because the ...
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Space Force Cancels $6.27 Billion GPS Ground System After Years of Cost Overruns and Failures

April 24th, 2026 Space Force Cancels $6.27 Billion GPS Ground System After Years of Cost Overruns and Failures. Rating 1 2 3 4 5; The U.S. Space Force has terminated its Next-Gene ...
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Losing GPS could cost billions, so the Space Force is having companies like Astranis build a backup network

The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System — more commonly known as GPS — nearly 50 years ago, satellites which have become critical infrastructure for both the military and the ...

Air Force scraps RTX GPS satellite ground control program

The Air Force on Monday canceled RTX Corp.’s ground-control network for the US’s next generation of GPS satellites after ...