Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The spoofing and jamming threat continues to grow, making GNSS resiliency for warfighters a hot topic at ION’s JNC 2024.
By Renee Knight
CACI International Inc. has announced that it was awarded a ten-year expertise contract valued at up to $450 million to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC), an operational center of U.S. Space Forces – Space and the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) center of excellence for navigation warfare (NAVWAR).
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The ICON project (‘Innovative cloud cooperative navigation’), led by GMV, has developed a concept demonstrator, enabled by high-speed, low-latency wireless communication networks and cloud-based data/signal processing.
By Peter Gutierrez
In high-performance applications, the debate over quartz and silicon MEMS inertial sensors rages on, but guest columnist David Gaber of Epson makes the case for why products from OEMs versus integrators are superior.
By Inside GNSS
One of the biggest challenges for satellite based positioning is mitigating the effects of multipath interference and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals, particularly in urban environments.
By Peter Gutierrez
A look at how far we’ve come, where we are today and where we’re going in the effort to protect PNT and critical infrastructure when GNSS services aren’t available.
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
A: Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) and Advanced RAIM (ARAIM; known more generally as Solution Separation RAIM, or SS-RAIM) were originally designed to detect, alert and (where possible) exclude faulty measurements caused by Signal-in-Space (SIS) failures.
By Sam Pullen
By Karen Van Dyke, Director, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and Spectrum Management in the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R)
By Inside GNSS
GPS technology developer oneNav has announced the successful results of a test of its technology’s resilience to widespread GPS interference. The tests took place in and around Haifa, Israel, and examined the performance of its L5-direct GPS receiver against the performance of GPS receivers in leading smartphone and smartwatch brands.
By Inside GNSS
The US Army released a Request for White Papers (RfWP) to develop new CMFF prototypes. CMFF—C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) Mounted Form Factor—is the Army’s effort to easily and rapidly equip ground vehicles and aviation platforms with capabilities like positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) and electronic warfare (EW), through capability cards plugged into a common chassis.
By Inside GNSS
Inertial Labs has announced the integration of its RESEPI LIDAR solution into the high-performance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) manufactured by ideaForge. This collaboration aims to advance UAV-based LIDAR mapping, providing industries with an enhanced, highly accurate, and reliable solution.
By Inside GNSS
Swift Navigation and Bad Elf have announced a partnership to deliver a complete, turnkey solution for high volume and high precision GIS data collection. GIS data enables workers across industries to create precise digital maps (showing the location of buried infrastructure, for example) that improve worker safety and efficiency in construction, utilities, and environmental management.
By Inside GNSS
Designed in Boulder, Colorado, USA, the SparkFun RTK EVK (Evaluation Kit) provides a development platform for fixed or mobile high-precision positioning and navigation needs. The RTK EVK comes with a range of options for prototyping: L1 + L2 RTK GNSS, with L-Band correction built-in if needed, running on an agile processor.
By Inside GNSS
