Col. Bernie Gruber in 2012. Photo: U.S. Air Force

Bernard Gruber, former GPS Program director, joins Spirent Federal Systems Board

April 5, 2019

Spirent Federal Systems, a provider of GPS/GNSS test equipment, announced that Col. (retired) Bernard Gruber, former program director […]

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Figure 1. Theoretical spectra of the four signals transmitted by a GPS III satellite in the L1 frequency band. (Image: Authors)

First light: Broadcast of L1C by GPS III

March 19, 2019

Less than three weeks after its launch, the first GPS III satellite, SVN74, started transmitting navigation signals. SVN74 […]

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All hail the GPS Gold Standard’s new golden era

January 10, 2019

Elsewhere in this (January) issue you’ll find the hard facts — basic, but hard — concerning the inaugural […]

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A Falcon 9 rocket awaits launch. (Photo: SpaceX)

First GPS III launch delayed for rocket issues

December 19, 2018

The scheduled launch of the first GPS III satellite on December 18 was scrubbed, reportedly due to first […]

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in Weapon Systems (Represented via Fictitious Weapon System for Classification Reasons). Source: GAO analysis of Department of Defense information, GAO-19-128.

GAO targets DoD cyber vulnerability

October 22, 2018

In a 50-page report to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the government’s General Accounting Office (GAO) finds […]

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Defense takes center stage at Leadership Awards. John Raquet, AFIT, accepts 2018 Leadership Award for Services from Justin Eldredge, Spirent Federal. (Melanie Beus photo)

Defense takes center stage at 2018 GPS World Leadership Awards Ceremony

October 10, 2018

An Air Force professor was honored for years of work exploring every PNT technology imaginable in conjunction with […]

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Image: GPS World

The benefits of the multi-GNSS future

September 11, 2018

Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS, IRNSS, and more join GPS and GLONASS to bring you wider, broader, greater, more accessible […]

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Image: GPS World

Horizon broad but troubled for 2018

December 27, 2017

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. GPS modernization, once gasping for breath […]

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