(AP) — The plug is being pulled on a radio navigational system that for decades was the preferred choice of mariners in waters off the U.S. As low-cost GPS has emerged in recent years, the LORAN-C ...

Telecom industry, federal agencies and specialists say growing risks to the Global Positioning System increase the need for it. In his fiscal 2010 budget, President Obama killed funding for a system ...

The U.S. shut down its last Loran-C maritime navigation transmitter last year after deciding that the system, developed by the U.S. Coast Guard, had been superseded by GPS. But European governments, ...

No audio available for this content. Image: KENGKAT/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images A new paper by two Qualcomm engineers imagines restructuring Loran technology to more easily incorporate ...

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation thinks otherwise, and came up with $37 million in fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2011 in its version of the Coast Guard's 2010 authorization bill ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become integral to modern society, providing continuous, worldwide positioning, navigation and timing services through a network of satellites. However, ...

The U.S. Homeland Security and Transportation departments are seeking public input into the fate and future of the four-decades-old LORAN system, including whether to cancel it altogether, maintain ...

LOWER TOWNSHIP - When retiree George Loper goes fishing for black drum on the Delaware Bay, he likes to know he has a back-up navigation system in case his satellite system fails him. Loper isn't ...