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LightSquared GPS Interference Controversy: Senate Investigation Won’t End with FCC Decision
January 27, 2012

LightSquared GPS Interference Controversy: Senate Investigation Won’t End with FCC Decision

A Senate investigation into how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) handled a request to rezone spectrum adjacent to GPS frequencies for LightSquared’s powerful wireless network will continue whether the FCC nixes the plan or not.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has been looking into whether the FCC fast-tracked its review of the Virginia firm’s proposal to build a 4G broadband network with signals that would be, tests now show, powerful enough to interfere dramatically with GPS receivers.

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By Inside GNSS
The Return of SVN49

The Return of SVN49

In an effort to improve constellation sustainment, on or about Feb. 1, 2012, SVN-49 will resume transmitting an L-band signal using PRN24 as a test asset, according to the U.S. Air Force Space Command. Upon completion of the test event, SVN-49 will once again be decommissioned from active service.  PRN24 will then once again be available for future satellite service.

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By Inside GNSS
DoD Strategic Guidance “Protects” GPS Modernization

DoD Strategic Guidance “Protects” GPS Modernization

GPS and other space systems fare well in the Department of Defense (DoD) strategic budget initiative outlined today (January 26, 2012) by U.S. civil and military officials.

The comments reflected policy decisions laid out in “Defense Budget Priorities and Choices,” an introduction to a strategic guidance intended to plot the course of the Pentagon over the next five years. Modernization of the Global Positioning System will be “protected” financially, according to the document.

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By Inside GNSS
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Supreme Court Ruling on GPS-Aided Monitoring Leaves Issues Unresolved
January 26, 2012

Supreme Court Ruling on GPS-Aided Monitoring Leaves Issues Unresolved

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A U.S. Supreme Court opinion released this week (January 23, 2012) ruled that warrantless GPS-aided monitoring of a suspect violated the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures."

But it will probably not be the court’s last word on the subject and may, in fact, provide Congress and state legislatures with enough incentive to address the subject more fully than they have to date.

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By Inside GNSS
GPS – The DoD’s Profit Center
January 19, 2012

GPS – The DoD’s Profit Center

Why Washington continues to talk about deficits while the country is talking about jobs and foreclosures is kind of a mystery, but let’s play along.

Following the failure of Congress’s would-be budget-cutting committee that wasn’t so super, the Department of Defense is facing about $500 billion in mandatory cuts over the next 10 years.

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By Dee Ann Divis
ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies
January 17, 2012

ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies

Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam

A special session on Satellite Navigation Technologies will be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE) at the Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam on August 1-3.

Because South East Asia will be covered by all of the global and regional satellite navigation systems by 2015, the region will experience the multi-GNSS environment at its edge.

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By Inside GNSS
FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice
January 16, 2012

FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

Monte Mario, the highest hill in Rome

A special seminar for geodesists will take place in Rome, Italy on May 4 and 5, just before the 35th FIG general assembly and working week.

The conference venue is the Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario near the Vatican.

It is organized by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the surveyors’ international association (FIG) and the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG).

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By Inside GNSS
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ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

Roma eventi – Fontana di Trevi conference center

The first IEEE-AESS ESTEL Conference (Europe Space and Satellite Telcommunications) will be held at Roma Eventi – Fontana di Trevi  
Conference Centre from October 2 through 5, 2012.

It is an offshoot of the Space Applications and Technologies (SAT) Expo, covering telecommunications via satellite for advanced services and applications, architectures, technologies and terminals.

The conference will be held in English. Abstract submissions have closed.

The technical program will cover five major areas:

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By Inside GNSS
Hexagon 2012

Hexagon 2012

A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s second international conference this summer.

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By Inside GNSS
AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2012
January 15, 2012

AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2012

AUVSI 2011 exhibit floor (photo by Roger L. Wollenberg)

The 2012 Unmanned Systems North America exhibition and conference sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 6 -9 at Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas.

It features  technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems market. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.

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By Inside GNSS
New Austerity Squeezes GPS as DoD Tightens Its Belt

New Austerity Squeezes GPS as DoD Tightens Its Belt

Embracing the need for debt-driven discipline, the White House has revised its strategy for the nation’s defense, taking a more fiscally constrained approach that reduces the number of troops and future spending on defense systems.

The new plan, formally announced January 5, was already being put into effect last summer. “The strategic guid­ance was the compass by which we steered the budget review leading to the president’s budget for fiscal year ‘13 and the years thereafter,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter told reporters.

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By Dee Ann Divis
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