B: Applications

GAO Report: More Research Needed to Determine GPS Program Changes
September 14, 2013

GAO Report: More Research Needed to Determine GPS Program Changes

Air Force officials should get more cost and user information and determine how many GPS satellites they will support before making decisions about revamping the navigation system, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has told Congress.

Although an Air Force report about program options was “a good starting point, more information on key cost drivers and cost estimates, and broader input from stakeholders would help guide future investment decisions,” the GAO wrote in an assessment of the defense agency’s analysis.

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Building a BeiDou Simulator
September 13, 2013

Building a BeiDou Simulator

BeiDou-2 Is Born
The year before the main release, China surprised the global community when it published just a test version of the promised ICD for the BeiDou-2 B1 open signal. In this document, the modulation scheme for the signal was confirmed and the pseudorandom code generator for the ranging signal was described.

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Miguel Ortiz

Miguel Ortiz

Miguel Ortiz is a research engineer at GEOLOC Laboratory from IFSTTAR, the French institute of science and technology for transport, development, and networks.

He received his M.Sc. degree in mechanics, automation, and engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers. He joined the lab after six years spent in a company where he managed systems architecture for automotive applications.

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Predator UAV Provides Surveillance in Battle Against Yosemite Fire
August 30, 2013

Predator UAV Provides Surveillance in Battle Against Yosemite Fire

NASA satellite photo shows northward drift of smoke from wildfires near Yosemite National Park.

Better known for supporting U.S. troops in firefights in Afghanistan firefights, a Predator drone has been deployed to help California National Guard firefighters battle wildfires raging around Yosemite National Park.

U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel approved the use of a GPS-guided MQ-1 Predator to support firefighters battling the Rim Fire that has expanded to more than 160,000 acres, accordeing to Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Keegan, California National Guard public affairs officer.

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Vote Nears for Weather Forecasting Bill That Could Boost GPS Radio Occultation Firms

Vote Nears for Weather Forecasting Bill That Could Boost GPS Radio Occultation Firms

Two companies angling to provide the government with cutting-edge, GPS-based weather data may get a boost this fall if a bill aiming to improve forecasting wins U.S. House approval.

The companies, Bethesda, Md.-based Planet IQ and GeoOptics, Inc., of Pasadena, California, hope to use GPS radio occultation or GPS-OR to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Defense with weather data.

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QinetiQ, Nottingham Scientific Demonstrate Cloud-Based Galileo PRS Technology
August 2, 2013

QinetiQ, Nottingham Scientific Demonstrate Cloud-Based Galileo PRS Technology

Two British companies, QinetiQ and Nottingham Scientific Ltd (NSL), have partnered to demonstrate an Internet “cloud”-based technology that enables a wide range of high-volume, low-cost satellite navigation applications using Galileo’s Public Regulated Service (PRS).

The NSL-QinetiQ application allows a service provider to host secure navigation on one server in a back office, capture data from multiple locations and units, and subsequently verify the location of a remote user.

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Exit Interview: GPS Directorate’s Col. Bernie Gruber
July 31, 2013

Exit Interview: GPS Directorate’s Col. Bernie Gruber

USAF Col. Bernie Gruber, GPS Directorate. Air Force photo

Last month, USAF Col. Bernard Gruber stepped down after three years of running the Global Positioning Systems Directorate at Los Angeles Air Force Base.

The GPS Directorate, originally established in 1974 as the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office, is responsible for development, acquisition, fielding and sustainment of all GPS space segments: the modernized operational control segment (OCX), the next-generation GPS III satellites, and modernized GPS user equipment (MGUE).

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