National Academy of Engineering

Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson (see photos) have received the annual Charles Stark Draper Prize from the Washington-based National Academy of Engineering for their work to develop GPS. Getting is president emeritus of The Aerospace Corp. of Los Angeles. In the 1950s, he envisioned a...

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