The geolocator | Ep 7

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• Lin Haas, program manager, Strategic Technology Office
• Host: Ivan Amato, Public Affairs

Developing positioning technology that works undersea where GPS signals cannot go

Lin Haas of the Strategic Technology Office shares his expansive view on the current and future roles of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technology, whose most famous incarnation is known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). 

Haas reveals ambitious PNT programs that include efforts to develop an undersea system that provides omnipresent positioning capabilities across ocean basins where GPS signals do not go and to exploit environmental signals, such as the electromagnetic features of lightning, for back-up geolocation service if GPS were to become unavailable.