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GPS NEWS
A Closer Look At the GPS OCX Contract. [SIGNALS exclusive] Long-delayed but - for Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems business - worth the wait: $886 million for openers, up to $1.5 billion with options, to build and maintain the next-generation GPS Operational Control Segment. (More)
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UK VIEW ON GNSS JAMMING & INTERFERENCE
PRESENT IMPERFECT. [SIGNALS exclusive] "Our navigation community has long talked about the possibility of GPS jamming. . . . We monitored the development of military jamming. . . . But for a long time, almost the only intentional jamming to affect civil GPS was deployed by governments in tests. . . . Now all that's changed." (More) |
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MUNICH SATNAV SUMMIT
GNSS - QUO VADIS? [SIGNALS exclusive] A high-level assembly of GNSS notables gathers for the eighth time in Germany on March 9, 10, and 11 to assess the state of the systems. Among the new and provocative sessions, a panel of journalists - including Inside GNSS editor Glen Gibbons - give their views on the progress and problems of GNSS. (More)
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WHITE HOUSE
FY2011 GPS BUDGET PROPOSAL allocates $1.057 billion for Department of Defense GPS-related procurement and development activities and nearly $180 million to the Department of Transportation for civil GPS programs. (More)
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DIRECTOR'S CUT
DELETED SCENES & ALTERNATE ENDINGS. Follow INSIDE GNSS editor Glen Gibbons' blog beginning March 6 as he takes a sidelong glance at the people, policies, and practices of the world's global navigation satellite systems. It happens here: (More)
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LET'S DO LAUNCH
FIRST GPS BLOCK IIF SATELLITE MOVES TO CANAVERAL. The first Block IIF satellite is undergoing final launch preparations for a possible mid-May launch after arriving at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter. (More) |
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GNSS WEATHER REPORT
FOLLOW THE SUN. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched February 11 on an $850-million, five-year mission to find out more about the sun's magnetic field activity and space weather and, hopefully, to improve forecasting enough to safeguard GPS and other technologies. (More) |
