The Pentagon Wants New Technologies That Can Fight Wars Without GPS

SPC Christopher Quimbaya, a paratrooper assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), uses the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) during a combined-arms live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr, Germany, March 28, 2014. The DAGR Distributed Device (D3), a replacement for the DAGR, is one of several solutions under development that incorporate the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) System of Systems Architecture. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger)

Warrior Maven: Pentagon to Attack Enemies, Fight Wars - Without GPS?

The Department of Defense is aggressively pursuing technologies designed to enable combat operations in a GPS denied War

Since the days of the Gulf War debut of a host of new precision weaponry and communications technology, the US military has increasing developed GPS-dependent drones, satellites, force tracking systems and a wide range of weapons.

While such things, such as Air Force Joint Direct Attack Munitions for the Air Force, or the Army’s GPS-enabled Blue Force Tracking succeeded in ushering in a new generation of advanced combat operations – in more recent years potential adversaries have become adept at closing the technical gap with the US. As part of this, the margin of US military technological superiority is challenged, matched and, in some cases, outdone.

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WNU Editor: I guess this is the Pentagon's way of making sure that in the event of a major war against an adversary that can disable GPS systems, this will be the alternative system that they will be using.