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March 12, 2012
Air Force Space Command Head Supports GPS Spectrum Needs at House Subcommittee Hearing

U.S. Air Force Gen. William Shelton , commander of the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), told a recent House Armed Services subcommittee hearing…

By Inside GNSS


March 12, 2012
Polaris Wireless Names Per Enge as Tech Advisor

Pen Enge Stanford University professor and GNSS expert Per Enge has been named chief technical advisor of Polaris Wireless, a Mountain View, California–based…

By Inside GNSS


March 7, 2012
Going to Nashville in September? Submit your ION GNSS 2012 Abstracts by March 9

Aerial view of downtown Nashville, Tennessee USA Join the 250 other technical presenters at this year’s Institute of Navigation GNSS conference and submit…

By Inside GNSS


March 7, 2012
Oceanology International 2012 Navigation and Positioning Conference

"Putting technology to work" is the theme of the Navigation and Positioning one-day conference covering all aspects of precise navigation, surface and sub-surface…

By Inside GNSS


February 29, 2012
Web Seminar on Challenges of GNSS/Inertial Integration Gets Thumbs Up

Nearly 400 system integrators, equipment manufacturers, product/application designers, and other professionals from around the world tuned into a live broadcast web seminar presented…

By Inside GNSS


February 29, 2012
U.S. House Committee Leaders Request Information on LightSquared and GPS Interference

Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representative’s Energy and Commerce Committee have requested additional information regarding the procedures followed by federal agencies…

By Inside GNSS


February 29, 2012
GPS Program Budget: A Lot, But Is It Enough?

The details of President Obama’s 2013 budget have been gradually filtering out and, in general, the GPS system and those programs closely linked…

By Inside GNSS


February 28, 2012
LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid GPS Interference Controversy

Sanjiv Ahuja LightSquared announced today (February 28, 2012) that Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his position as chief executive officer of LightSquared, Inc. He…

By Inside GNSS


February 25, 2012
China Launches 11th Compass/BeiDou-2 Satellite

China successfully launched a satellite into space at 00:12 Beijing Time on February 25 (February 24, 16:12 UTC/GMT), the 11th of the nation’s…

By Inside GNSS


February 25, 2012
Genene Fisher

Dr. Genene Fisher is senior policy advisor with NOAA’s National Weather Service. With a doctorate in atmospheric and space sciences from the University…

By Inside GNSS


February 25, 2012
Solar Max and Space Weather Prediction

Dr. Genene Fisher On any given day — especially cloudy winter days — most people may not give a lot of thought to…

By Inside GNSS


February 25, 2012
LightSquared Asks for More Time to Contest FCC Action on GPS Interference

Charging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with a “rush to judgment,” LightSquared Inc. is seeking an extension of more than a month to…

By Inside GNSS


February 23, 2012
IFEN and WORK Microwave Introduce Enhanced NavX-NCS GNSS Simulator

IFEN, the Poing, Germany–based manufacturer of GNSS navigation products and services, working in partnership with WORK Microwave, have announced an enhanced version of…

By Inside GNSS


February 21, 2012
Septentrio/QinetiQ Equipment Receives First Gaileo PRS Signal

Septentrio and QinetiQ have reported the world’s first successful reception on February 14 of the encrypted Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) signal from…

By Inside GNSS


February 18, 2012
President’s Budget Request Would Continue GPS Modernization

Following up on the “strategic guidance” on defense spending that the White House laid out last month, President Obama has proposed a Fiscal…

By Inside GNSS


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