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July 1, 2007
Galileo’s New PPP: Public-Public Partnership?

GSA Executive Director Pedro Pedreira (left) and Guiseppe Viriglio, ESA director of telecom and navigation, at signing of accord Having abandoned — for…

By Inside GNSS


June 3, 2007
Speaking with Authority: Galileo’s Lead Agency in a Changing World

Sometimes things don’t go as planned.

By Inside GNSS


May 1, 2007
Galileo’s Plan B (and C)

A sea change appears to be taking place in Europe’s Galileo program as its political masters prepare to transform the struggling public-private partnership…

By Inside GNSS


April 1, 2007
USAF Lets L5 Demo Contract; GPS III RFPs

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin Company a $6 million contract to develop and integrate a demonstration payload that will temporarily…

By Inside GNSS


April 1, 2007
PNT Executive Group Gains New Co-Chair, Advisory Board

President Bush’s appointment of retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thomas Barrett as Acting Deputy Secretary of Transportation has brought a new co-chairman…

By Inside GNSS


April 1, 2007
Galileo Plods On

Europe’s Galileo program continues to take small steps as it waits to see if it can get through an impasse between the European…

By Inside GNSS


April 1, 2007
China Launches Compass MEO

China has taken the next step in developing its Compass GNSS system, launching the nascent system’s first medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite into…

By Inside GNSS


March 2, 2007
More Perils for Galileo . . . and Other GNSS Dramas

A convergence of developments over the past few months has brought Europe’s Galileo program to the most critical passage of its history —…

By Inside GNSS


January 31, 2007
NordNav, CPS Purchase to Support Mobile Phone Effort

BlueTooth technology provider CSR, of Cambridge, United Kingdom, has acquired NordNav Technologies AB, of Sweden, and Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) of also…

By Inside GNSS


January 31, 2007
Trimble Acquires @Road, Spacient

Trimble of Sunnyvale, California, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire publicly held @Road, Inc. of Fremont, California, and has purchased privately…

By Inside GNSS


January 31, 2007
GPS Block III Contracts

The U.S. Air Force has awarded two $50 million contracts to Boeing and Lockheed Martin to execute a system design review for the…

By Inside GNSS


January 31, 2007
DHS Buys IEC’s 3-D Locator

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…

By Inside GNSS


January 31, 2007
RTK Precise Positioning

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…

By Inside GNSS


January 31, 2007
Moscow International SatNav Forum

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…

By Inside GNSS


January 2, 2007
GLONASS Seeks a Commercial Future

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

By Inside GNSS


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