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When it comes to defense spending, GPS delivers the biggest bang for the buck. Its economic benefits each year exceed its total cost to date.
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Defense Spending: Biggest Bang for the Buck Isn’t a Weapon; It’s GPS

June 20, 2017August 27, 2019 Eric F. Frazier

President Trump’s proposed $54 billion defense spending increase has sparked predictable debate, and rightly so. It’s accompanied by drastic cuts for programs that help the poor, protect the environment, fund medical research and support diplomacy. The “guns versus butter” debate…

Eric F. Frazier speaks at the New York Military Affairs Symposium May 5, 2017.
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C-SPAN to Air GPS History Presentation

June 1, 2017August 27, 2019 Eric F. Frazier

C-SPAN will broadcast a talk about GPS that I presented with my coauthor, Richard D. Easton, May 5 at the New York Military Affairs Symposium (NYMAS) in New York City. The first airing will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, June…

After a VBIED Iraq War 2007-2008
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Driverless Car Bombs Pose Threat

September 30, 2015August 27, 2019 Eric F. Frazier

GPS satellites broadcast passive one-way signals that by themselves can do no harm. But bad actors can use the power of GPS in frightening ways. “Driverless vehicles could easily be perverted into a ghastly weapon—a guided missile making full use…

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Privacy in the Age of Cellphones

May 5, 2014 Eric F. Frazier

Although the paranoid among us fear a long-running government conspiracy to track our every move à la Orwell’s 1984—and to be sure, technology now makes that possible—the path to having GPS in every pocket was more uncertain, less coordinated and…

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GPS Turns 40

December 17, 2013June 20, 2017 Eric F. Frazier

December 2013 brought two important anniversaries for GPS, a technology that has changed the world, yet both milestones have gone unnoticed in the media. The Pentagon authorized GPS development 40 years ago on Dec. 17, 1973. If GPS were a…

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Tracking Baby Jesus

December 5, 2013December 14, 2013 Eric F. Frazier

One of the oddest uses of GPS tracking I found while doing research for the book, GPS Declassified, was the case of a community center in Wellington, Florida, that used it to catch a thief who stole baby Jesus from…

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“Gravity” Highlights Space Debris Issue

October 14, 2013 Eric F. Frazier

More than twenty-four hours after watching the new movie “Gravity” in IMAX 3-D, images from the film continue hurtling periodically through my mental machinery, and like the orbital debris that drives the plot, they keep puncturing and shredding whatever task…

About Eric F. Frazier

I am an independent writer, editor, book reviewer and co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones.

Frazeology is my take on matters large and small, in the news or off the radar. My approach is personal, but the goal is not to write about me. Rather, it is to offer subjective observations about experiences and concerns that we all share.

From time to time, I link to and comment on things others have said particularly well--or especially poorly. And sometimes I make up new words. We have more than enough already, but it's fun and I find playing around with language irresistible.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by, and I hope you enjoy reading.

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About GPS Declassified
“A useful work about a complex topic.”
— Roger Launius, Quest
“GPS Declassified is a carefully researched, well written, fast-paced, and thoroughly enjoyable book. It offers an excellent mix of science, technology, history and culture. This book is highly recommended.”
— William F. Mellberg, The Space Review
“Expertly weaves the story of GPS development and its ever-expanding use."
— M. W. Carr, Choice
“Written in a clear and lively style GPS Declassified provides readers with GPS development history including personal recollections from leading developers…. As an introduction to GPS, its history, uses, issues and concerns GPS Declassified can’t be beat.”
— Robert Schaefer, New York Journal of Books
“The authors do the impossible, making an intricate technological advance fascinating to read. They offer an informative and well researched account of how GPS proved its worth even before the system was complete.”
—Walter J. Boyne, author of How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare and former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
“A fine and entertaining story of the origins of the Global Positioning System, a consequential space-age technology that has affected the lives of hundreds of millions in war and peace."
—Mike Gruntman, PhD, professor of astronautics, University of Southern California at Los Angeles, and author of Blazing The Trail: The Early History Of Spacecraft And Rocketry
“The authors deftly place the concept and development of GPS within two broader historical contexts: navigation and robotic spaceflight.”
— from the foreword by Rick W. Sturdevant, PhD, Deputy Director of History, Air Force Space Command

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