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August 2, 2017

Lockheed Martin Invests $350 Million in “Factory of the Future” for Satellite Production

Lockheed Martin’s planned satellite integration facility, the Gateway Center, is slated for completion in 2020. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

Preliminary construction is underway on a new, $350 million Lockheed Martin facility that will produce next-generation satellites. The new facility, located on the company’s Waterton Canyon campus near Denver, Colorado is the latest step in an ongoing transformation, infused with innovation to provide future missions at reduced cost and cycle time.

By Inside GNSS

August 1, 2017

STATSports Selects Taoglas to Connect to GPS-based Apex System

Taoglas’ AGGBP.25B two-stage 28 dB Active GPS Patch Antenna Module. Photo: Taoglas.

Taoglas, a Wexford, Ireland-based provider of automotive and Internet of Things (IoT) antenna products, today announced that STATSports has selected Taoglas to provide antenna solutions for its new Apex line of GPS-based sports performance monitors.

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July 31, 2017

OCX Delayed Again as Development Jumps to $6 Billion

The development cost for the new GPS ground system has jumped to $6 billion and the schedule has slipped another nine months due to "realized program technical risks" and the need to refresh out-of-date hardware and software, according to the U.S. Air Force.

By Dee Ann Divis

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Funding Boosted for GPS Backup and WAAS, but Civil GPS Funding in Question

On July 27, while most of Washington was focused on the Senate’s healthcare drama, House lawmakers quietly passed their defense appropriation bill and approving in the process a last-minute spending boost for the demonstration of a GPS backup.

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July 28, 2017

Future Space Service of NavIC (IRNSS) Constellation

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GPS Funding Comes with Strong Support — and Strings Attached

Federal budgeteers have made clear their support for satellite navigation though problems with military space programs in general, and GPS programs in particular, have lawmakers working to shake up the Pentagon’s management structure and put limits on new federal business to contractors whose projects go awry.

By Dee Ann Divis

Answering the Call for a GNSS Back-up

A government report commissioned by Innovate UK, along with the UK Space Agency and the Royal Institute of Navigation, entitled “Economic impact to the UK of a disruption to GNSS”, comes in the wake of troubling incidents for GNSS operators, both the United States and Europe.

Last year a problem with the GPS satellite timing signal triggered alarms and caused an unknown number of outages, and in Europe earlier this year the fledgling Galileo signal crashed due to unspecified ground facility issues.

By Peter Gutierrez

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July 27, 2017

L3 IEC’s Modernized GPS Receiver Completes Successful Guided Flight Test

L3 Interstate Electronics Corporation announced on Tuesday (July 25) that its TruNav GPS is the company’s first Military Code (M-Code) compatible GPS receiver to guide a gun-launched spinning projectile to a target. The guided flight test was conducted at Yuma Proving Grounds by the U.S. Army as part of a series consisting of both guided and unguided rounds.

By Inside GNSS

July 26, 2017

Public Safety Training Workshops and Educational Sessions Set for 2017 Drone World Expo

The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), DJI, and Fly-Robotics will be presenting a public safety training workshop as part of the pre-conference offerings at Drone World Expo 2017, taking place October 3-4 at the San Jose Convention Center. The workshop will be held on Monday, October 2, from 9am – 12 pm and 1pm – 4 pm.

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International Flight Inspection Symposium 2018

Sponsored by the International Committee for Airspace Standards and Calibration (ICASC) and hosted by the Institute of Navigation (ION), IFIS 2018 is the 20th International Flight Inspection Symposium and serves as a credible international forum that promotes a better understanding of the technologies and environmental issues impacting global flight inspection operations.

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Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek present world’s first test solution for A-BeiDou LBS

The R&S TS-LBS is a test system for testing GNSS and network-based LBS. Photo: Rohde & Schwartz.

Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek have successfully completed the verification of location based services (LBS) in the U-plane and C-plane for A-BeiDou (Assisted BeiDou), China’s GNSS satellite positioning system. The R&S TS-LBS test solution is designed to allow mobile manufacturers, chipset manufacturers, test houses and network operators to verify chipsets and mobile devices in order to obtain permission to operate them in a particular network.

By Inside GNSS

July 25, 2017

Australia’s First GPS Infrastructure Officially in Space

This has been a productive year so far for Australia in terms of GPS breakthroughs, but plans are in place for the country to continue to make big strides in GPS technology and precise positioning programs.

Spatial Source — Australia and New Zealand’s first website covering the geospatial, surveying, GIS and mapping communities — reports that Australia officially has its first GPS infrastructure in space, according to the nation’s Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

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2017 Public Interface Control Working Group and Forum for the NAVSTAR GPS Public Documents

Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Air Force Base.

This notice informs the public that the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Directorate will host the 2017 Public Interface Control Working Group and Open Public Forum on September 6-7, 2017 for the following NAVSTAR GPS public documents: IS-GPS-200 (Navigation User Interfaces), IS-GPS-705 (User Segment L5 Interfaces), ICD-GPS-240 (NAVSTAR GPS Control Segment to User Support Community Interfaces), and ICD-GPS-870 (NAVSTAR GPS Control Segment to User Support Community Interfaces). Additional logistical details can be found below.

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Lockheed Martin Invests $350 Million in “Factory of the Future” for Satellite Production

STATSports Selects Taoglas to Connect to GPS-based Apex System

OCX Delayed Again as Development Jumps to $6 Billion

Funding Boosted for GPS Backup and WAAS, but Civil GPS Funding in Question

Future Space Service of NavIC (IRNSS) Constellation

GPS Funding Comes with Strong Support — and Strings Attached

Answering the Call for a GNSS Back-up

L3 IEC’s Modernized GPS Receiver Completes Successful Guided Flight Test

Public Safety Training Workshops and Educational Sessions Set for 2017 Drone World Expo

International Flight Inspection Symposium 2018

Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek present world’s first test solution for A-BeiDou LBS

Australia’s First GPS Infrastructure Officially in Space

2017 Public Interface Control Working Group and Forum for the NAVSTAR GPS Public Documents