L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC), Anaheim, California, has been awarded a preproduction contract for Advanced Three-Dimension Locators by the Department of Homeland Security…

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada’s NovAtel Inc. offers a new real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning solution, known as AdVance RTK, designed to enhance the precision and…

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Profi-T-Centre Ltd., a Russian business conferencing company, and IIR, a London, England–based business information, conferencing, and consulting firm, are organizing an International Satellite…

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Russia is showing ever-stronger signs of a serious intention of not merely restoring its GNSS system, GLONASS, but of turning it into a…

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The 14-year (and counting) history of Europe’s Galileo program has always made for a complex story line. And it’s not getting any simpler….

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The Loran terrestrial radionavigation system might well be pulled back from its 12-year-long dance on the brink of extinction, while the Nationwide Differential…

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China has confirmed what many have been expecting for some time: it will construct the world’s fourth GNSS system — joining the systems…

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As the clock runs out on the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) that has guided the institutional development of the European GNSS program for…

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Successful launch of the second modernized Block IIR satellite, IIR-15(M2), on September 25 and scheduling of another IIR-M launch on November 14 underlines…

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The GPS Block IIF program continues to lose ground, with first launch of a satellite now projected as no sooner than May 2008…

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This is what happens when the grandchildren of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland go out and “rent the old barn and put on…

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U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contractors appear to be getting closer to fielding GPS-aided precision guidance systems that can withstand the arduous requirements…

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Shah Capital Partners, a private equity firm focusing on technology, will acquire GNSS receiver manufacturer Thales Navigation from the Thales Group, of Paris,…

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The consortium negotiating to build and operate Europe’s Galileo system now expects to sign an agreement with the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) by…

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Okay, now it’s official: The GPS Block III contract award has been delayed from Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06) to Fiscal Year 2007 (FY07).

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