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Gruber to Take over GPS Wing Leadership

Col. Bernard Gruber. USAF photo

Col. Bernard Gruber, currently the commander of the 45th Space Wing Operations Group at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, will take over command of the GPS Wing later this year.
Gruber served at the wing’s predecessor organization, the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office (GPS JPO) in the early 1990s, where he was involved with user equipment acquisition including the Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) procurement. He will replace Col. David Madden, perhaps as soon as May. Gruber received his appointment as colonel in January 2006.

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Submit abstracts by February 19 for the 2010 Joint Navigation Conference

The deadline for abstract submission for the 2010 Joint Navigation Conference has been extended to Friday, February 19.

The 2010 Joint Navigation Conference (Guidance, Navigation and Control) will take place at Wyndham Orlando Resort in Florida, USA from June 7 to June 10, 2010.

The conference theme is "Military Navigation Technology: The Foundation of Military Ops." It is cohosted by the Joint Service Data Exchange (JSDE) and the Institute of Navigation (ION) for the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.

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January 30, 2010

Tallysman Wireless Launches First Product in New GPS Line

A new Canadian company, Tallysman Wireless, Inc., has entered the GNSS antennas and RF modules marketplace.

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January 28, 2010

New LMCO SV Lab Will Support GPS IIIA Production

Inside the LM Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory. Lockheed Martin photo

Lockheed Martin has announced that its new Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory (SVIL) near Denver, Colorado, has achieved initial operational capability and is supporting the company’s satellite development program activity, including the production run of the next-generation GPS IIIA spacecraft.

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January 22, 2010

Anthony Russo New Head of Space-Based PNT National Coordination Office

Anthony Russo

Anthony Russo took up duties this week (January 19, 2010) as the director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). The NCO provides the working staff for the National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee, drawing on representatives assigned from various federal agencies and departments.

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January 21, 2010

U.S. Air Force Chief Warns against Over-Reliance on GPS

Gen. Norton Schwartz, USAF photo

The Global Positioning System is vulnerable to threats such as jamming and anti-satellite weapons and the United States should reduce its dependence on the system while developing alternatives for precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), the U.S. Air Force’s top military leader said Wednesday (January 20).

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January 19, 2010

National Weather Service Invites Comments on Ionospheric Data Products for GPS Users

SWPC U.S. Total Electron Count Map

The U.S. National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) is inviting suggestions and opinions about the agency’s ionospheric weather products for the GPS constellation, today and on out through the next solar max, 2013–2014. Increased solar activity can magnify ionospheric scintillation and other phenomena that can affect the performance of GNSS receivers.

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GMV Receives Contract to Develop GAGAN Receiver Algorithm

Raytheon Company has awarded a new contract to GMV to develop a prototype algorithm to mitigate ionospheric effects on users of India’s GAGAN (Global Positioning Satellite-Aided Geosynchronous Augmented Navigation System),

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January 14, 2010

APEC GIT/14: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation GNSS Implementation Team Meeting

The 14th Meeting of the APEC Global Navigation Satellite System Implementation Team will be held at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, Washington USA from June 21-24, 2010.

Registration is open online at the web address below.

The last meeting held in Singapore tabled a draft strategy for 2010-15 that emphasized intermodal GNSS transportation applications. It will also serve as the focus of the Seattle meeting.

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January 13, 2010

GPS-Wireless Conference Postponed until Fall 2010

The fourteenth GPS-Wireless conference, originally scheduled for March 22 in Las Vegas, has been postponed until fall 2010, said conference owner Kevin Dennehy. No date has been announced.

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Abstracts due January 20 for 2010 AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference

Paper abstracts are due by January 20 for the 2010 AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America conference next summer. They must be submitted online at the AUVSI website.

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January 12, 2010

USCG Publishes Loran-C Termination; DHS Says Not Needed for GPS Backup

Loran on ice

(UPDATED January 7, January 12) The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) posted a notice in the Federal Register on January 7 certifying that termination of the Loran-C signal will not adversely affect the safety of maritime navigation and that decommission will begin on February 8 with all Loran stations expected to cease transmitting the Loran-C signal by October 1, 2010.

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has certified that the Loran-C system infrastructure is not needed as a backup to the GPS system or to meet any other federal navigation requirement.

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January 11, 2010

USAF Repositions GPS Constellation to Improve Coverage in Afghanistan and Iraq

US Army soldier equipped with new Land Warrior gear, including GPS within a computer/radio subsystem (CRS) (photo: defenseimagery.mil)

Officials from the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) have announced their decision to optimize the GPS constellation over the next two years so as to improve global coverage for GPS military users in Afghanistan and Iraq. Inside GNSS reported on the initiative last November.

The need to support U.S. and allied military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, where terrain in geographically challenging areas can degrade complete coverage of GPS signals, prompted the Air Force to seek ways to improve signal coverage.

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Gruber to Take over GPS Wing Leadership

Submit abstracts by February 19 for the 2010 Joint Navigation Conference

Tallysman Wireless Launches First Product in New GPS Line

New LMCO SV Lab Will Support GPS IIIA Production

Anthony Russo New Head of Space-Based PNT National Coordination Office

U.S. Air Force Chief Warns against Over-Reliance on GPS

National Weather Service Invites Comments on Ionospheric Data Products for GPS Users

GMV Receives Contract to Develop GAGAN Receiver Algorithm

APEC GIT/14: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation GNSS Implementation Team Meeting

GPS-Wireless Conference Postponed until Fall 2010

Abstracts due January 20 for 2010 AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference

USCG Publishes Loran-C Termination; DHS Says Not Needed for GPS Backup

USAF Repositions GPS Constellation to Improve Coverage in Afghanistan and Iraq