12 Facts About Ivan Getting

Ivan Alexander Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited with the development of the Global Positioning System.

Ivan Getting was the co-leader of the research group which developed the SCR-584, an automatic microwave tracking fire-control system, which enabled anti-aircraft guns to destroy a significant percentage of the German V-1 flying bombs launched against London late in the Second World War.

Ivan A Getting was born on 18 January 1912 in New York City to a family of Slovak immigrants from Bytca, Slovakia and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ivan Getting then worked at Harvard University on nuclear instrumentation and cosmic rays and the MIT Radiation Laboratory.

Ivan Getting served as head of the Naval Fire Control Section of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, member of the Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee on Searchlight and Fire Control, and head of the Radar Panel of the Research and Development Board of the Department of Defense.

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In 1950, during the Korean War, Getting became Assistant for Development Planning, Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Air Force; and in 1951, Vice President for Engineering and Research at the Raytheon Corporation.

In 1960 Ivan Getting became the founding President of The Aerospace Corporation.

Ivan Getting served on the Board of Directors of the Northrop Corporation and the Board of Trustees of the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan.

Ivan Getting was an early designer and proponent of satellite-based navigation systems which led to the development and deployment of the Global Positioning System.

Ivan Getting was involved in the development of the first high-speed flip-flop circuit at Harvard.

Ivan Getting was involved in the development of the Navy GFCS MK-56 anti-aircraft fire control system; as well as in the development and building of a 350 MeV synchrotron at MIT Radiation Laboratory.

Ivan Getting was involved in the development of the Sparrow III and Hawk missile systems; as well as commercial production of transistors at Raytheon.