Defense DARPA Seeks GPS Complement Published April 27, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion A Boeing-led team is working on a so-called Robust Surface Navigation (RSN) concept for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The objective of the RSN program is to develop navigation technology that can be exploited in the event GPS signals are jammed, blocked or otherwise unavailable. Read more » Boeing DARPA
GNSS L5 Contract Awarded to Lockheed Martin Published April 27, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion In late-breaking news, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $6 million contract to develop and demonstrate a payload that will temporarily transmit a third civil signal, on the L5 frequency at 1176MHz, from a Block IIR-M satellite. Read more » contract award GPS Block IIR-M satellite GPS IIR-M Lockheed Martin
GNSS GPS GPS Contract Awarded to SAIC for Systems Engineering Published April 27, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion The Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center's GPS Wing has announced a new contract to the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) team for systems engineering and integration (SE&I). Contract value is $217 million if all options and maximum award fee are exercised over the five-year contract period of performance. Read more » contract award SAIC U.S. Air Force
Survey Trimble Introduces Handheld Data Collection Device Published April 23, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Trimble has introduced the Juno ST handheld, a portable data collection solution supported by the company's field and office software. Read more » GNSS handheld PND Trimble
Opinions Survey Survey Perspectives – April 2007 Published April 19, 2007 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion Ok, this column is supposed to be about high-precision GNSS, right? Well, who would have ever thought I?d be inclined to write about consumer GPS receivers? Certainly not me. Sometimes, I even speak rather condescendingly about those Wal-Mart GPS units because they seem to be mis-used so often in the survey/construction business Read more » Survey Scene
Survey Uncategorized Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Participating in 2007 AAG Annual Meeting Published April 18, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging has announced its participation at the 2007 AAG Annual Meeting, April 17-21, 2007, at the San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco, California. Read more » Leica Geosystems
Mobile Rosum Comments on 9-1-1 Location Capability Published April 18, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Rosum Corporation commented on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation?s April 10 hearing on VoIP and the Future of 9-1-1 Services." Read more » 911 location-based services mobile Rosum
Mobile FCC Brings Focus to E911 Published April 18, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin plans to issue new rules for testing location-based E911 service, as well as a call for public comment on the technology itself. Read more » E911 FCC wireless
Mapping Orion Partners with Sky-Shine Published April 17, 2007 By Tracy Cozzens Join the Discussion Orion Technology Inc. has formed a partnership with Sky-Shine Corporation Sdn. Bhd., a firm specializing in GIS development and mapping services, surveying and mapping systems, and environmental and laboratory instrumentation in Malaysia. Sky-Shine offers a full range of geospatial information technology services, from data conversion to application development and implementation. It serves both public- and […] Read more » geospatial GIS GSS LizardTech Orion
Transportation AmbientNAV Releases Marine LCD Monitors Published April 17, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion AmbientNAV has launched a line of marine LCDs featuring its SeaEye technology. Read more » marine