GPS Military and Government

Loran: What the President Meant to Say Was...

Don Jewell — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:40:59 +0300

“What the General meant to say was…” This Henny Youngmanish one-liner has probably been around the military for as long as there have been general officers and those that endeavor to protect them from themselves. I am not picking on generals because certainly we all misspeak from time to time; it is just that generals and presidents do it more often in public forums.

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President, Congress Abandon National Infrastructure

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:37:34 +0300

Teams in the National Football League have backups. The United States government, military, financial network, wireless communication and transportation infrastructures do not. Having ridden to election in part on the back of the previous administration’s lack of readiness for and response to natural disaster, the Obama administration and Democratic Congress seem willing, if not eager, to commit...

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Navteq Awarded Contract with National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:12:03 +0300

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded Navteq a contract as the map data and content provider for the comprehensive global commodity dataset (SATNAV) that offers transportation, public venues and miscellaneous points of interest data layers.

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Trimble Yuma: The Perfect Handheld GPS Transceiver?

Don Jewell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:04:50 +0300

What do you think of when you hear the name Yuma? Do you think of a small city in Arizona or do you think of all the tough guy Westerns named after that town, such as: “3:10 to Yuma” originally starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, or Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, and Peter Fonda in the remake. Then there is “Fort Yuma” with Peter Graves, and just plain “Yuma” with Clint Walker. The name Yuma is...

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Northrop Grumman to Continue Development of GPS-Free Inertial Navigation System

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:18:58 +0300

Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a contract modification from the U.S. Department of Defense to further demonstrate a revolutionary advance in inertial navigation. The demonstration project makes use of traditional electro-optic (EO) cameras, atomic clocks, and advanced vision processing technologies to provide inertial navigation system (INS) updates to aircraft, ground vehicles, and...

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MicroDAGR: Major Improvement?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:10:47 +0300

As many of you know who have been reading my columns for any length of time, I have been critical of the DAGR by Rockwell Collins. The DAGR or the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver has numerous shortcoming which I will not enumerate here because evidently Rockwell Collins has been reading the critical reviews, and more importantly, listening to the warfighters as well as developing a new handheld...

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Fusion of Multi-Sensor Networks

Shunguang Wu Jim Kaba Siun-Chuon Mau Tao Zhao — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:52:39 +0300

Collaborative navigation in GPS-denied environments can play a key role for dismounted warfighters, civilians, or robots in security, intelligence, and first-responder activities. Multi-sensor fusion algorithms based on optimization and a novel distributed iterative extended Kalman Filter produce a Teamwork Effect error-scaling law, an Anchor Effect for minimal numbers of optional RF navigation...

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Expert Advice: GPS Forensics, Crime, and Jamming

David Last — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:10:04 +0300

The most widely used of all GPS devices are in-car navigators. When vehicles carrying navigators are used for criminal purposes, records contained in the devices may be examined. Such investigations rely on newly developed forensic techniques that employ a combination of computer expertise and navigation knowledge, yielding valuable data for crime investigators.

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Raytheon Awarded $73M Army Contract for Excalibur Ia-2 Rounds

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:31:38 +0300

Raytheon Company (Tuscon, Arizona) received a $73.3 million U.S. Army contract for the production of Excalibur Ia-2 155 mm precision-guided projectile rounds. Excalibur Ia-2 is the next generation of precision-guided projectiles for U.S. Army and Marine Corps artillery. Using GPS precision guidance technology, Excalibur rounds provide warfighters with an accurate first-round, fire-for-effect...

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L-3 Interstate Expands Line of Miniaturized, Low Power GPS Receivers

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:34:43 +0300

L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC) announced today two additional configurations of its miniaturized hardened GPS receiver and one new configuration of its GPS-based guidance & navigation unit (GNU). The new TruTrak Evolution receiver configurations include a 1.75 x 2.45-inch, low-power, high-accuracy design and a 3.07 x 0.93-inch design for projectiles.

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