Bradford Parkinson

Background

A U.S. Air Force colonel and engineer.

Contribution

Led the design and development of the GPS system architecture in the 1970s as its chief architect and first program director.

Associated inventions

• Satellite Navigation (GPS)

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Roger L. Easton
• Gladys West

Associated organizations

• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• GPS.gov — official U.S. government information about the Global Positioning SystemU.S. Space Force / GPS.gov · Government / archive
• NASA — Global Positioning System history & applicationsNASA · Government / archive

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