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An Airman with the 374th Security Forces Squadron uses a Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) to track the team’s current during a 2018 field training exercise at Camp Fuji, Japan. (Photo: Senior Airman Matthew Gilmore/U.S. Air Force)

BAE Systems to develop advanced GPS chips for warfighters

February 24, 2021

BAE Systems has received a $247 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center […]


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Royal Institute of Navigation issues call for papers for Navigation 2021 conference

December 3, 2020

The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) has issued a call for papers for the Navigation 2021 conference. The […]


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Swift Navigation precise positioning technology improves GNSS receiver accuracy

November 16, 2020

Swift Navigation announced its precise positioning platform can improve the performance of existing single-frequency GNSS positioning, found on […]


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Defense small-vehicle navigation system designed for export

September 11, 2020

A new military vehicle navigation system designed and developed by South Africa-based Etion Create is ready for the […]


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1990: UNB Professor Richard Langley and two graduate students use a GPS antenna (recognize it?) on a tripod to re-measure a historical baseline. (Photo: UNB Perspectives)

In the beginning, there was innovation

September 7, 2020

When GPS World published its first issue in January 1990, only 15 GPS satellites had been launched, including […]


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The value of point clouds is unlimited

August 25, 2020

By Jacob Amacker Oxford Technical Solutions What is a point cloud? A point cloud is fundamentally a simple […]


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No silver bullet for US PNT: Many sources needed

August 18, 2020

Many PNT sources from multiple providers needed “We cannot have GPS signals be a single point of failure […]


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I was expecting a jetpack…

August 17, 2020

When I was a kid in the 1960s, I was entranced by the vision of the future. Decades […]


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