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"While working for four decades as a mathematician and computer programmer at the U.S. Naval Proving Ground (now the Naval Surface Warfare Center) in Dahlgren, Va., [Gladys West] prepared the way for a satellite constellation in the sky that became an indispensable part of modern life: the Global Positioning System, or GPS."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/gladys-west-hidden-figure-gps

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