US army working on new technology to replace GPS

The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, the director of the Pentagon’s research agency said.

DARPA, the group behind a range of spy tech and which helped invent the internet, was also the driving force behind the Global Positioning System, director Arati Prabhakar said at a press conference.

“In the 1980s, when GPS satellites started to become widely deployed... it meant carrying an enormous box around on your vehicle,” she said.