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February 17, 2022

Military GPS Equipment Delays Prompt Army, Marines to Buy Direct, Says Latest Pentagon Report

U.S. military efforts to field jam-resistant GPS weaponry not only run behind schedule, they continue to fall back, according to the annual report from the Department of Defense (DoD) Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) Nickolas Guertin. Because “the lack of M-code capable receivers limits the M-code use by U.S. and allied warfighters,” branches of the Armed Forces are now sourcing directly from commercial suppliers.

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U.S. Air Force Adds CRPA Testing Solution to Golden Horde Weapons Program

The U.S. Air Force Guided Weapons Evaluation Facility ordered a BroadSim Wavefront advanced GNSS simulator from Orolia Defense & Security for weapons testing under electronic warfare — jamming — environments, among a wide range of other conditions.

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February 16, 2022

pureL5 GNSS Digital IP Core and Customer Evaluation System

oneNav announced the commercial availability of its pureL5 GNSS digital IP core, which directly acquire and track L5 signals from GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS and GLONASS without any L1 aiding.

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February 4, 2022

Modifications on Order for Record-Setting GPS-Guided Heavy Munition: Accurate to within 2 Meters at Any Range

Raytheon Co. Missile Systems received a $66 million modification contract for procurement of an undisclosed number of Excalibur 155mm Increment 1B GPS-guided heavy artillery projectiles, next-generation artillery precision munition, with an estimated completion date of April 29, 2024.

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December 24, 2021

Air Force Contracts for Advanced Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments

Intermap Technologies, a provider of geospatial content development and intelligence solutions, received a prime contract with the U.S. Air Force to support the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in its development of navigation solutions for GPS-denied environments.

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December 22, 2021

PNT Pod for GPS-Contested Environments Passes High-Dynamics Test

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s complementary PNT AgilePod prototype aced its first high-dynamic flight tests in November 2021. It also achieved two other firsts: the first test of fully-remote interfacing and alt-PNT data transmission, and the first demonstration of overland/overwater transition performance.

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$329 Million to Engineer Earlier-Gen On-Orbit GPS Satellites

Boeing secured a 10-year, $329.3 million contract to help the U.S. Space Force engineer operational GPS Block IIF satellites.

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December 17, 2021

Tenth GPS III Satellite Named for Inventor of Technique at Base of CDMA Signal Structure

The last GPS III Space Vehicle under the original GPS III contract has been christened “Hedy Lamarr” as part of its production milestone known as core mate, assembling it into a full satellite.

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December 15, 2021

Advanced M-code Modules Order Doubled by DoD

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has executed a $316 million contract option for BAE Systems’ advanced M-Code GPS modules, raising the contract funding to $641 million.

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November 30, 2021

Russia Explodes Own Satellite with Ground-Based Missile; Spokesperson Threatens GPS

Russia conducted an unannounced direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test on November 15, targeting and exploding its own defunct satellite Tselina-D. After the test, Russian television executive and spokesperson Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselyov, head of the official Russian government-owned international news agency Rossiya Segodnya, reportedly said on live tv that this demonstrated that Russia could and would if necessary target U.S. GPS satellites, thus “blinding” its military forces.

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High-Precision A-PNT Card Aligned to Army CMOSS and SOSA Technical Standard

Spectranetix, Inc. has released its SX-124, ruggedized 3U OpenVPX high-performance position, navigation and timing (PNT) solution. With an ability to provide timing and positioning information in a GPS-denied environment through sensor fusion, the SX‑124 switch is a highly integrated next-generation cyber / electronic warfare (EW) / Signals intelligence (SIGINT) / Communications / Battle Management System (BMS) device

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November 19, 2021

ESA Awards Contract for Network-Assisted PNT Assurance, Involving Iridium

Telespazio UK, a subsidiary of Telespazio of France and Italy, received a development contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) for a Next Generation Network Assisted Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Assurance (NG-NAPA) project.

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EGNOS SBAS Host Acquired by Telecom Company

Viasat Inc., a global communications company, will acquire Inmarsat, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, in a transaction valued at $7.3 billion. Two of the four European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) broadcasting payloads, part of Europe’s GNSS, ride aboard Inmarsat satellites,

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