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Joint Navigation Conference 2011: Guidance Navigation and Control

Joint Navigation Conference 2011: Guidance Navigation and Control

Registration is open for 2011 JNC – Joint Navigation Conference (Guidance, Navigation and Control) on June 28-30 at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Everyone who attends must apply and be approved before they come. 

Tutorials will take place on June 27.

FOUO sessions on June 28-29 will take place at the Crowne Plaza.

The classified sessions on June 30 will take place at Elkhorn Conference Center, Fort Collins, Colorado

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CSNC 2011: China Satellite Navigation Conference
May 14, 2011

CSNC 2011: China Satellite Navigation Conference

Exhibit from the first Compass Satellite Navigation Conference

The second China Satellite Navigation conference will take place at Shanghai’s Expo Center on May 18-20, 2011.

The conference scientific chair is Prof. Sun Jiadong.

The aim of the conference is to build satellite navigation as an active academic field in China, to promote satellite system technology innovation and to strengthen the relationship between business and government for the advance of China’s Compass/Beidou system.

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APEC-GIT/15: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-GNSS Implementation Team Meeting
May 13, 2011

APEC-GIT/15: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-GNSS Implementation Team Meeting

Brisbane City Botanic Gardens facing Alice Street

(See Glen Gibbons’ report from APEC/GIT-14 in Seattle, June 2010)

The fifteenth meeting of APEC’s GNSS Implementation Team will be held June 13-16 at Sofitel Brisbane Central, All Saints Convention Center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Online pre-registration is required and is limited to 50 delegates. Please contact either of the co-chairs if your password is not accepted on the GIT webpage registration screen.

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2012 European Navigation Conference

2012 European Navigation Conference

Gda?sk Golden Gate- D?uga Street

In 2012, for the first time, the annual European Navigation Conference and industry exhibition will take place in Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland.

It will be held at April 25-27 in the Filharmonia convention hall on Olowianka Island, near the historic center of the city.

The theme is "Navigation for the People." The conference will be held in English.

The abstract submission deadline has been now passed.

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Galileo Launch Date Set for October

Galileo Launch Date Set for October

Soyuz launcher during dry run at Kourou Spaceport. ESA photo. S. Corvaja

[Updated June 1, 2011] Two Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites will comprise the first launch on a modified Soyuz rocket from the European Union’s spaceport in French Guiana.

Now scheduled for October 20, the launch will mark the beginning of the creation of the operational constellation for Europe’s GNSS system.

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2012 European Navigation Conference to Take Place in Poland
May 5, 2011

2012 European Navigation Conference to Take Place in Poland

In 2012, for the first time, the annual European Navigation Conference will take place in Gdańsk, Poland.

It will be held at April 25-27 in the Filharmonia convention hall on Olowianka Island. It is at the center of the one of the oldest Baltic cities, near many of the historical attractions of Gdańsk (Danzig).

The theme is "Navigation for the People." The conference will be held in English.

The event will also feature a technical exhbition for companies, institutes and others to demonstrate their products.

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Air Traffic Control Modernization: FAA, NextGen, GNSS, and Avionics Equipage
April 30, 2011

Air Traffic Control Modernization: FAA, NextGen, GNSS, and Avionics Equipage

Mike Dyment, General Partner, NextGen Equipage Fund LLC

» Air Traffic Control Modernization (PDF)

In between partisan confrontations around the 2011 federal budget and raising the U.S. debt limit, prospects are improving for federal legislation that would provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a regular full-year budget for the first time since Fiscal Year 2007 — including support for completing the transition to a GNSS-driven air traffic control (ATC) system known as NextGen and a “public-private partnership” to equip aircraft with the needed avionics.

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Trimble Q1 Report: Revenue Up 20 Percent
April 29, 2011

Trimble Q1 Report: Revenue Up 20 Percent

Trimble announced Thursday (April 28, 2011) that its first-quarter 2011 revenue was up 20 percent at $384.3 million as compared to the first quarter of 2010. 

Operating income grew 21 percent to $43.7 million compared to the year-earlier period.  Operating margin in the first quarter of 2011 was 11.4 percent, approximately flat compared to the first quarter of 2010. 

First quarter 2011 non-GAAP operating income of $70.1 million was up 23 percent; the non-GAAP operating margin was 18.2 percent.

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New Senate Subcommittee Addresses Mobile Technologies and Privacy: Apple, Google to Appear

New Senate Subcommittee Addresses Mobile Technologies and Privacy: Apple, Google to Appear

Funny thing about the U.S. Constitution: it address the activities of government officials and agencies — including restraints on those activities — but not the activities of commercial business and individuals. The latter are left to federal, state, and local laws.

So, when the government conducts warrantless surveillance using GPS, the issue may come before the U.S. Supreme Court or state and federal judges at other levels. If private companies do it, they may end up at a congressional hearing.

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