Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Enterprise Baseline ScheduleCol. Bernie Gruber, commander of the GPS Directorate since June 2010, works in a busy place.
Through its various incarnations since being established in 1974 — as Joint Program Office, Air Force Wing, and now Directorate — the GPS program at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, has been at the center of the action.
By Inside GNSS
The GPS community is seething over a January 26 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) giving a conditional go ahead to a new broadband network with the potential to overwhelm GPS receivers across the country.
By Dee Ann Divis
Frank & Jeanine at the Wild Animal ParkSIDEBAR: Frank Czopek’s Compass Points
Frank Czopek and his brothers used to go to the 1970s Detroit version of Craigslist — Trading Times — to buy two or three non-functioning Chevrolet Corvairs (air-cooled rear engine-mounted) cars, at $25 apiece.
They hoped to turn the junkers into a single functioning automobile over a weekend. Unfortunately, the results did not last long; so, the process was repeated often. But they sure had fun!
By Inside GNSS
Engineering Specialties
Mechanical space hardware, real-time embedded programming, Boolean Logic, Assembly Language.
His Compass Points
By Inside GNSS
A Salzburg, Austria–based start-up company, Mobilizy, took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010 (ESNC 2010) for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality (AR) to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones.
Wikitude Drive also won the prize for the best application leveraging EGNOS, the European satellite-based augmentation system that aims to add even more speed, precision, and reliability to GPS. The European GNSS Agency (GSA) sponsored the EGNOS prize.
By Inside GNSS
Tony Russo, Director, U.S. National Space-Based PNT Coordination OfficeReturn to main article: "NaviForum Shanghai 2010"
The United States brought a strong message that it is pursuing a new direction in GNSS relations with China in presentations at the recent 2010 NaviForum Shanghai.
By Inside GNSS
A close brush by a passing typhoon on its opening day aside, NaviForum Shanghai 2010 mustered an impressive slate of senior executives from Chinese companies working in the navigation and telematics/location based services (LBS) field.
By Inside GNSS
