by Editor | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s note: In June we posted a South Korean news item that contained much of this same information. The most significant difference with this news item is that in June the lawmaker making the fuss was from the opposition party. The one cited in this article...
by Editor | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s Note: Many futurists see the coming decade as the real dawn of the age of robotics and autonomous systems. This post from “Maritime Executive” seems to reinforce that. It should also remind everyone how navigation is an invisible utility...
by Editor | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
Blog editor’s Note: Not a bad overview article on Kiplinger.com Two points, though. First, the bit about “What’s the value of oxygen? GPS is oxygen” is from Greg Milner’s book “Pinpoint – How GPS is changing technology,...
by Editor | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: In 1998 President Clinton directed a study of the growing dependency on satellite navigation and timing systems. In 2001 the resulting report confirmed it was a problem, recommended studying upgrading Loran-C to be a complementary system, and...
by Editor | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s note: The legislative progress on this important issue continues. A link to the bill itself, HR 5978 Links to materials submitted to the Congressional Record associated with the bill: 2004 fact sheet on National Security Presidential Directive 39...
by Editor | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
Discussing his agency’s efforts to protect GPS and the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services it provides, a government official was recently quoted saying that a major problem was that the issues were decentralized and so many agencies were...