Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
In the beginning, GPS was envisioned as a military program. A sign on the wall in the Joint Program Office where the system came…
By Alan Cameron
Iridium Communications Inc. received a research and development contract worth up to $30 million from the United States Army to develop a payload…
By Alan Cameron
A new tome — make that two new tomes — join the bookshelf of essential, authoritative references for GNSS users. They widen the…
By Alan Cameron
As stated in these pages last September, every GNSS user in every segment can benefit from the new modernized signals in the L5…
By Alan Cameron
A new tome — make that two new tomes — join the bookshelf of essential and authoritative references for GNSS users, while widening…
By Alan Cameron
Here, in no particular order save vaguely chronological, are the editor’s picks for Top Twelve GNSS and PNT Tech Stories of 2020: those…
By Alan Cameron
The Federal Aviation Administration has released its final Remote Identification (RID) Rule for unmanned aircraft (UA). While GPS/GNSS has been used to advantage…
By Alan Cameron
By astral definition, every dawn is new. In the human condition, we see its possibility, its growing brightness bringing hope. Or, in our…
By Alan Cameron
It has become fashionable of late in U.S. government circles to undermine the U.S. defense forces. The General Accounting Office (GAO), the Federal…
By Alan Cameron
When we find ourselves in times of trouble, it can help to take the long view. Pull back, zoom out, range free. Consider…
By Alan Cameron
A great man has left us, left the international GNSS community. Dr. Javad Ashjaee passed away in Moscow on May 30 from the…
By Alan Cameron
The Federal Communications Commission should really consider updating its motto. “Firm, fast, flexible, and fair” has a bit of an old-fashioned ring. As…
By Alan Cameron
We stand at an existential crossroads while someone else decides our future. I don’t mean the choice of direction, currently roiling the front…
By Alan Cameron
GPS keeps a digital twin sequestered in El Segundo, California. Galileo has an Earth-bound space vehicle in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, straining at its…
By Alan Cameron
One may well ask, when doesn’t it? That aside, some controversy has arisen in the world of competitive running, and self-competitive running as…
By Alan Cameron
