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CGSIC Meets in 3 Weeks – Baltimore

August 26, 2024

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Image: GPS use and research by civilians has greatly contributed to improvements in user equipment. Image credit 1976 GPS receiver Smithsonian and microchip Shutterstock.

What’s New: The Civil GPS Service Interface Committee Meeting is coming up soon. There is still time to register and attend – for free!

Why It’s Important: This is the civil user community’s chance to tell the government what it thinks of the service, how it can be improved, etc.

What Else to Know:

  • There will be over 40 presentations – we are looking forward to hearing Okuary Osechas and Gary McGraw speak about complementary systems for performance based navigation, and the talk about Baltimore’s Key Bridge disaster.
  • This event is being held at the same venue and just before ION’s GNSS+ conference.
  • We will be there!

 

 

All CGSIC:

On the 16th and 17th of September 2024, the 64th meeting of the U.S. Government’s Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) will be hosted by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN) at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor.  DOT serves as the civil lead for the Global Positioning System (GPS) and chairs the CGSIC in this capacity. NAVCEN fulfills duties as Deputy Chair and Executive Secretariat for the CGSIC.

The Keynote speaker for this year’s CGSIC Plenary Session will be Coast Guard Rear Admiral Wayne Arguin, Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy, responsible for the development of national policy, standards, and programs promoting Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Stewardship.  Agendas for the CGSIC Subcommittee and Plenary sessions will include presentations on the operational status and modernization of the GPS constellation of satellites, U.S. space-based Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) policy, GPS augmentation systems, information related to U.S. engagement with other international Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as well as a variety of interesting applications and use of GPS.

On Monday, September 16th, the Subcommittees of the CGSIC for Timing, International Information, and Survey, Mapping, and Geosciences will hold their meetings.  A summary of these subcommittee meetings will be presented to the CGSIC Plenary Session on Tuesday, September 17th.The meeting will be conducted in a hybrid fashion and links to the virtual attendance opportunity will be posted to the online agenda prior to the event.

Interested attendees may register to attend the meeting at the following link:

https://forms.office.com/g/J4N1z0cMU0?origin=lprLink

An agenda for the CGSIC meetings in Baltimore is available at https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2024/   All CGSIC presentations will available there for viewing online shortly after the meeting conclusion.  As a reminder, all CGSIC meetings are free and open to the public so please come by for an interesting couple of days’ briefings on the U.S. civil GPS program.

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Rick Hamilton
CGSIC Executive Secretariat
GPS Information Analysis Team Lead
U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center
703-313-5930

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