{"id":2817,"date":"2013-04-25T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2013-04-25T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:25:29","slug":"us-army-seeks-new-technology-to-replace-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"US army seeks new technology to replace GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2811\" alt=\"\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f.jpg 512w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/\u0531\u0544\u0546-\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0561\u056f-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of the Pentagon&#8217;s research agency said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA, the research group behind a range of spy tech and which helped invent the Internet, was also the driving force behind the creation of the Global Positioning System, director Arati Prabhakar said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the 1980s, when GPS satellites started to become widely deployed&#8230; it meant carrying an enormous box around on your vehicle,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s got to the point where it&#8217;s embedded not just in- all our platforms but in many of our weapons,&#8221; as well as in many civilian devices, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in 2010, DARPA has been working on a variety of programs aimed at developing new navigation and positioning technology &#8212; at first with the goal of extending their reach to places where satellites don&#8217;t work, such as underwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-usa","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}