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Racelogic Wins Two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for GNSS Simulator Business
May 4, 2012

Racelogic Wins Two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for GNSS Simulator Business

UK-based Racelogic has been singled out as a double winner in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, receiving both Innovation and International Trade awards.

Announced on April 21 to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, the 2012 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise listings contained 209 companies, with Racelogic being one of only four to be honored with the award for both Innovation and International Trade.

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Cybersecurity Bills Could Reshape GPS Anti-Interference Efforts
April 30, 2012

Cybersecurity Bills Could Reshape GPS Anti-Interference Efforts

Legislation moving through Congress could reshape efforts to counter GPS interference as the government steps up its efforts to fight cybercrime and protect critical systems like the power grid and communications networks.

Though cybersecurity generally focuses on protecting information systems the broad definitions in some legislation now on the Hill appear to encompass GPS support systems, some user communities, and even the constellation itself.

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British Military Claims Patent on GPS, Galileo Civil Signal Structure
April 27, 2012

British Military Claims Patent on GPS, Galileo Civil Signal Structure

Variations on the common GPS/Galileo MBOC signal

The British military establishment is seeking royalties from GPS receiver manufacturers, asserting it holds a patent on the technology at the heart of the new GPS and Galileo civil signals.

Should U.S. manufacturers have to pay royalties, American GPS users, who have already paid for the GPS constellation and made it available to the world free of charge, could find themselves spending more to use its location capabilities. Sources said the development could undermine relations between the U.S. and the European Union (EU), which have cooperated for years to develop a common signal at the L1/E1 frequency centered at 1575.42 MHz.

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NASA Backs Test of Real-time GPS Earthquake Mitigation Network
April 26, 2012

NASA Backs Test of Real-time GPS Earthquake Mitigation Network

Location of real-time GPS monitoring stations in the western United States that make up part of the Real-Time Earthquake Analysis for Disaster Mitigation Network. The networks stations are overlain on a U.S. Geological Survey seismic hazard map showing areas forecast to have a 10-percent probability of exceeding a certain level of ground shaking within the next 50 years. (Areas in shades of red have the strongest shaking, while areas in green shades have the weakest shaking.) Image credit: USGS/UC Berkeley/Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Evolution of real-time GNSS reference networks and data processing has evolved to the point that NASA-backed researchers believe they can soon implement large-scale demonstration tests to provide earthquake and tsunami alerts to the general public and emergency responders.

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GPS Partnership Council Meeting

GPS Partnership Council Meeting

The 11th GPS Partnership Council meeting will take place on May 1 and 2,
2012 at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air
Force Base in El Segundo, California. It is located about four miles
south of the Los Angeles Airport.

As of April 27, the meeting is full, however registration is open for the golf tournament on Wednesday and social evening on Tuesday.

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FAA Extends Raytheon’s WAAS Contract
April 25, 2012

FAA Extends Raytheon’s WAAS Contract

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Raytheon Company a two-year contract extension to continue to provide services for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). The $30.1 million contract extends the period of performance through Sept. 24, 2013.

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2012 Space Weather Workshop
April 23, 2012

2012 Space Weather Workshop

Aurora Borealis, 1977, near Anchorage, Alaska from the National Weather Service collection in NOAA’s online photo database

The annual Space Weather Workshop will take place on April 24-27 2012 at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder, Colorado. Registration is now open.

The conference schedule is online here.

Organizers call it the meeting of science, research, applications, operations and users.

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IEEE/ ION PLANS 2012: Position Location And Navigation System Conference 2012
April 21, 2012

IEEE/ ION PLANS 2012: Position Location And Navigation System Conference 2012

PLANS conference venue

This biennial conference and industry exhibition explores the field of navigation—from fundamental research, to applications, to field test results.

It will take place April 24, 25 and 26 at the Marriott Resort and Spa at Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA.

Sponsored by IEEE’s Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society and the Institute of Navigation, participants will learn about sensors, systems, optimal integration of multiple sensors and emerging technologies in navigation.

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Parts Testing Drives Up GPS III Program Costs, Forces Prime to Forego $70 Million Incentive Fee

Parts Testing Drives Up GPS III Program Costs, Forces Prime to Forego $70 Million Incentive Fee

The core structure of the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST) stands vertical in Lockheed Martin’s GPS III Processing Facility. LM photo.

An emphasis on quality assurance in system engineering and components in the first GPS III satellite now under development has driven projected costs up in the program above the budgeted amount, leading the U.S. Air Force to deny a $70 million incentive fee to prime contractor Lockheed Martin.

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Help DARPA Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

Help DARPA Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

DARPA example of a robot working in a dangerous area

We certainly hope the competitors in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge hardwire Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics into their creations—the one that says don’t harm humans.

Because the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s new contest aims to develop technology that advances robotics to the next level. The level at which robots can do what we do, go where we can’t, and change shape as necessary.

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