Fifty years since it was designed and approved by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the GPS is at risk of losing its status as the world’s gold-standard location service, reported The Wall Street Journal.
Ligado Networks has sued the U.S. federal government for $39 billion, alleging officials at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) misappropriated Ligado’s exclusively licensed L-band spectrum to support secret DoD systems without permission or compensation.
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has a specialized branch responsible for certifying GPS accuracy called the GPS Certification Branch.
The GPS user base is in the billions. Even if “most” receivers will not be harmed by Ligado’s operations, as the committee reported, tens of millions of devices will be.
The latest chapter of the decades-long Lightsquared/Ligado saga will be revealed this week The National Academies of Science, […]
ION’s Joint Navigation Conference program told the story of the GNSS/PNT community’s interests and concerns, focusing on technical advances in PNT.
In a world where GPS and other GNSS signals can be easily denied or, worse, spoofed, interest in […]
The XPONENTIAL 2022 theme is “Autonomy Meets Society.” The conference will include keynotes, educational sessions, specialized workshops, and an XPO Hall with 650+ exhibits.
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