Boeing Defense Space and Security, St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $311,805,780 ceiling increase modification to previously awarded contract for Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits.

The U.S. military has been looking for new ways to reduce its heavy reliance on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide precision guidance and navigation for munitions. Military planners worry ...

The latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Sept. 18, 2013) -- When preparing to face a more talented opponent, coaches tell their players that the path to victory is pulling together as a team to somehow obtain more ...

Draper Laboratory has been the design agent for all U.S. Navy strategic guidance systems since Polaris and for the U.S. Air Force Peacekeeper missile guidance system. In addition, Draper has designed ...

Keynotes at February’s Inertial Sensors conference summarize initiatives to provide continuous, high-frequency and high-accuracy position spanning GPS outages or obstructions. GPS-Free. Robert Lutwak, ...

Click to open image viewer. This system, manufactured by Honeywell, contained a set of gyroscopes that assisted in the guidance, navigation and control of the Gemini spacecraft. This specimen was ...