NOAA Contract for Prototype GPS-Denied Receiver

NOAA Contract for Prototype GPS-Denied Receiver

NOAA / NASA Drone.  NASA Image Blog Editor’s Note: We were interested to see this navigation sensor fusion effort sponsored by NOAA. According to Jack Elston at Black Swift, the $400K contract will result in a prototype navigation receiver that will probably fly...
New Appointee for Key National PNT Post

New Appointee for Key National PNT Post

Professor Robert Hampshire. Univ. Michigan Photo President Biden has appointed Professor Robert Hampshire from the University of Michigan as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). DOT is the...
America Has a GPS Problem – New York Times

America Has a GPS Problem – New York Times

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: Great opinion piece by Kate Murphy of the NY Times. Not much new in here for our regular readers, but very good to see this in such a well respected and widely read outlet. Note that she says the RNT Foundation...
US R&D Plan for Resilient PNT – At the very last minute

US R&D Plan for Resilient PNT – At the very last minute

Blog Editor’s Note: One hour and fourteen minutes before its end, the Trump administration published the “National Research and Development Plan for PNT Resilience.” Does it matter?  Many of those who authored it are no longer in a position to do...