# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bradford-parkinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:51:20.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bradford-parkinson"
name: "Bradford Parkinson"
slug: "bradford-parkinson"
description: "Bradford Parkinson is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early contributions from Ivan Getting and Roger Easton, of the Air Force NAVSTAR program, better known as Global Positioning System."
tagline: "American systems engineer and developer of global positioning system"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bradford_Parkinson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-02-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             5.800684251186405
  historical:           10.50914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/bradford-parkinson"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ব্র্যাডফোর্ড পার্কিনসন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bradford W. Parkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Parkinson"
    title: "Bradford Parkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Parkinson"
    title: "Bradford Parkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Parkinson"
    title: "Bradford Parkinson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bradford Parkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bradford Parkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Parkinson"
    title: "Bradford Parkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump