The government is committed to providing GPS at the accuracy levels specified in the GPS Standard Positioning Service (SPS) Performance Standard. View document The accura… See more

As with positioning, the speed accuracy of GPS depends on many factors. The government provides the GPS signal in space with a global average user range rate error (… See more

GPS time transfer is a common method for synchronizing clocks and networks to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The government distributes UTC as maintained by the U.S… See more

The user range error (URE) of the GPS signals in space is actually the same for the civilian and military GPS services. However, most of today's civilian devices use only on… See more

No. During the 1990s, GPS employed a feature called Selective Availability that intentionally degraded civilian accuracy on a global basis. In May 2000, at the direction of Presiden… See more