For Black History month in February, the Free-Lance Star of Fredericksburg, Virginia, profiled a woman few of us know about — Gladys West. Capt. Godfrey Weekes, then-commanding officer at the Naval ...

The name Gladys West is probably unfamiliar, but she was part of creating something you probably use often enough: GPS. You wouldn’t think a child who grew up on a sharecropping farm would wind up as ...

From the sat nav in your car, to the tags on your social media posts, many of us use global positioning systems, or GPS, every day. Gladys West is one of the people whose work was instrumental in ...

Dr. Gladys West is inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame during a ceremony in her honor at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. in 2018. West was an unheralded but vital ...

Most of us use global positioning system (GPS) technology in one way or another on a regular basis — to add a location to social media posts, or to ask the navigation system in our car to direct us to ...

From the sat nav in your car, to the tags on your social media posts, many of us use global positioning systems, or GPS, every day. Gladys West is one of the people whose work was instrumental in ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marine Corps' big West Coast trade show kicked off on Thursday, and it featured more than 60 defense contractors showing off everything from drones that can fit in the ...

Boating supplies retailer West Marine will open it’s new Fort Lauderdale store on Nov. 11, the largest specialty store in its chain of more than 300 locations. The 50,000-square-foot facility at ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — Deputies in the Florida Keys have announced the arrests of 10 men linked to a "well-organized and sophisticated marine GPS theft ring" operating throughout the state. The Monroe ...