WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson will share the 2003 Charles Stark Draper Prize for their individual efforts toward the development of the global positioning system (GPS). The $500,000 award by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recognizes technological achievements that have affected millions of people's lives throughout the world. "Many of engineering's great achievements become so much a part of our lives that they are taken for granted. 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