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Everything changed for space-based positioning, navigation and timing around the world on Dec. 23, 2018. Or maybe it didn't. The innovations heralded by the launch of the first GPS III [...]

At what management level do the people in your organization understand the role that positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) data from GNSS plays in enabling your organization to achieve its [...]

Tell us about the on-orbit performance of the GPS III SV01, launched In December. On Jan. 8 we began broadcasting navigation data across all signal chains, and the satellite has [...]

GPS World spoke with Col. Wesley A. Ballenger, Jr. (CB), Commander, GPS Wing, Space and Missile Systems Center, U.S. Air Force, in his office on January 31. Alan Cameron (AC): [...]

Among all who took the survey, 18 percent said they worked in Defense, Security and Government (DSG), the second largest group among eight industry sectors, following only Survey and High [...]

Accountants scoring high on compliance services, such as the preparation of tax returns and financial statements, received lower scores from their customers on business advisory services. Public accountants gave themselves a higher performance rating. If accountants are going to market their business advisory services then they must reduce the performance perception gap.

The GNSS chip market worldwide is projected to grow by US$2.7 billion, guided by a compounded growth of 8%, to 2025, according to Research and Markets. Other market reports cite [...]

In contrast to the rosy forecast on the previous page, serious issues confront the GNSS market. None of them are more serious, thornier or difficult to resolve (despite the many [...]

We bring you a full global perspective with this year's State of the GNSS Industry Survey. Just over half our respondents work for companies or organizations headquartered in North America; [...]

Global markets learned something important from the brown-out of Galileo signals over a week's time in July: Life goes on without a hiccup in the absence of the European GNSS. [...]

This just in: a Final Report on the Economic Benefits of GPS. Sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology, the study began a couple of years ago, conducted by [...]

When I was a kid, two of my hometowns burger drive-ins attracted the hungry attention of my sister and myself, causing us to hound our parents to take us 'out [...]

In February I had the privilege of addressing the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Navigation Days conference in the Netherlands. An internal ESA event, Navigation Days gathers engineering staff from centers [...]

One day in perhaps the year 2000, I rushed into the office of this magazine's founding editor and thrust the morning paper under his nose. 'Did you see this?' 'Yup.' [...]

Gazing through soaring plexiglass walls at the space simulation room of the European Space Agency's Test Center in the Netherlands affords a glimpse into scientific history. I felt a frisson, [...]

Just last month we celebrated the kickoff of the GPS III campaign, reporting on the launch of the first space vehicle of that generation in the closing days of 2018. [...]

Elsewhere in this issue you'll find the hard facts--basic, but hard--concerning the inaugural launch of the long-awaited GPS III constellation. On pages 10 and 12, with some seasoned leavening between, [...]

Last year, the top five robotic runners in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge combined for an average distance covered of three miles from the starting gate. [...]

With an ever-increasing appetite to know about people's on-the-ground activities, both foreign and domestic, the U.S. government proves an apt customer for companies developing innovative aerial surveillance platforms. Recent demonstrations [...]

Bloggers Find Location Enabling 'I went past the post office today, but forgot we needed stamps.' 'Everyone who comes here should try the cafe around the corner.' 'This ridgetop view [...]

As in, your future reading, in these pages.Changes are in store, and soon to become real. (Isn't that always the way?) But truly, while continuing to cover every front of [...]

One remark in particular caught my eye as I read the press release precis of the European GNSS Agency's 2018 GNSS User Technology Report. In point, 'Today only around 30% [...]

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOUR EFFORTS focusing primarilly over the next decade? Primarily on GPS 20% Multi-GNSS 35% PNT including other sensors 25% All above plus GIS 20% Note: Table [...]

When we designed the survey of the global PNT community for the 2018 State of the GNSS Industry report, we put a couple of new wrinkles into the online questionnaire. [...]

'All the News that Fits' can sometimes be a hard motto to live up to, and it has turned out so this month. I want to get more material into [...]

This editorial comes to you live from the control console of GPS World's June webinar, 'Defense PNT in Challenged Environments.' I'm impressed, as always, by the engagement of our webinar [...]

Eight years on, and the money generated by a hedge fund still seeks to destabilize the Global Positioning System and the billions of people who benefit from it, whether they [...]

With great sadness we must report that Per Enge passed away on April 22, at home and surrounded by family. Per was a genial friend and colleague to many, and [...]

It was only a matter of time. Fake news has arrived in our little corner, our specialized technology sector of the world media market. On April 1--there's a telling date [...]

While it sounded like good news at first, once the real results were plucked from the slurry, they resemble nothing so much as the same old uncertainties. About the future [...]

There was plenty for a philosophy major to sink his teeth into at ION'S January workshop on Cognizant Autonomous Systems for Safety-Critical Applications (CASSCA). What is knowledge? What is meaning? [...]

The awards recognize significant recent achievement in the fields of position, navigation and timing: Satellites, Signals, Services and Products. The Leadership Dinner was sponsored by Harris, Rockwell Collins and Honeywell. [...]

There are various measures and techniques that may optimize the blasting process. The blasting process is an integral part in the production cycle of the coal mining industry. The measures include blast vibration prediction, measurement and reduction, blast monitoring for performance assessment, automatic blast pattern generation, design evaluation and risk assessment. a computer-based blast design system may evaluate the risks involved in blasting and would prevent any failures.

The Wallis Report into the Financial System was recently released by the Treasurer. One of its main recommendation is that a new body building on the existing ASC structure should [...]

Views from the top drive this issue of the magazine: personal essays from the directing officers and/or architects of each global satnav system. The plots of the four articles are [...]

Shortly after GPS World's 2017 Leadership Awards ceremony during ION GNSS+ week, the Institute of Navigation rolled out its own distinguished panel of award recipients at a conference luncheon. ION's [...]

It is a beautiful, crisp afternoon, the last of the summer, as I write and as we prepare for next weeks ION GNSS+ conference, where GPS World and sponsors Harris [...]

In Portland, Oregon, and in Berlin, Germany, the two largest and most important international conferences on GPS, GNSS, PNT, survey, mapping and geodesy take place this year on exactly the [...]

Possibly during the course of last month's editorial here, ''Nearly Perfect' Not Nearly,' in which I called out the Air Force for lauding itself a bit much, I veered across [...]

GNSS and PNT markets continue changing, sometimes very rapidly. No news there. Technology advances relentlessly, opening up new application areas and new price points as it goes. The market for [...]

Most activity so far in the PNT community has centered around the questions of 'Where am I?' and 'Where am I going?' and 'How fast am I going?' Positioning, navigation [...]

'It's always been time.' That was the first answer out of the gate, given in Session 3 of the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit last month. Dominic Hayes, Spectrum Management and [...]

Driving Dow Insurance Costs Position determines risk. In insurance terms, location information can improve the actuarial accuracy determining premium rate structures. If your insurance company knows where you go, they [...]

Almost every parent knows the sudden fear. Where is my child? Two new GPS-enabled devices on the verge of market entry attempt to assuage or forestall this alarm by providing [...]