West specialized in large-scale computer systems and data-processing systems for the analysis of information collected from satellites in her employment as a computer programmer. The Navy was bringing in computers at the time, and West programmed them, much like Dorothy Vaughan did for NASA, as represented by Octavia Spencer in the film “Hidden Figures.” West became the second Black woman ever hired at the Naval Proving Ground in Virginia, where she worked as a mathematician, after graduating from Virginia State College, a historically Black college, with a bachelor’s and master’s degree. West, who was born in 1930, worked as a mathematician, collecting and analyzing satellite data of the Earth’s surface until she developed a detailed model and assisted in the development of the technology that led to GPS, the global navigational satellite system that can accurately determine your location anywhere on Earth. Gladys West, on the other hand, is equally as essential, yet most people don’t know her name. Of course, Albert Einstein is well-known, and GPS would not exist without his special and general relativity ideas.
We do it without giving a second thought to how or by whom GPS technology was invented. Most of us use global positioning system (GPS) technology on a regular basis, whether it’s to add a location to a social media post or to ask our car’s navigation system to take us to our destination.
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