Miniscule Measurements Office Managing Despite Big Trump Budget Cuts

The National Geodetic Survey, an agency within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the oldest scientific agency in the U.S., is struggling to carry out its work due to doge-directed losses of funding and staff. The NGS maintains the government's framework of spatial information: latitudes, longitudes, elevations, etc. The agency's work is critical to the accuracy of GPS devices, infrastructure design and construction, floodplain mapping, and more. More cuts loom on the horizon: The NOAA budget proposed by the Office of Management and Budget cuts the National Geodetic Survey's parent organization's funding in half.