by Editor | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog
SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation, through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST–R), will begin testing Global Positioning System/Global Navigation Satellite System (‘‘GPS/GNSS’’) receivers this April pursuant to the DOT...
by Editor | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog
The Metro section of the Washington Post had an article yesterday: “Robbers allegedly tracked gambler with GPS they hid on car.” It gets better. There was another GPS enabled tracker on this guy’s car placed there by an investigator hired by his...
by Editor | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
GPS World February 24, 2016 By Alan Cameron It happened in the blink of an eye. Less than a blink. Far less, actually. Slightly more than one one-thousandth of an eye blink, according to calculations. In that amount of time, one of your eyelashes traverses 10...
by Editor | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
Guest Post by Professor David Last Satellite navigation may be the most successful innovation of recent decades among science-based industries. As the number of receivers world-wide soars past 2 billion, GPS has been joined by Russia’s GLONASS, China’s Compass-Beidou,...
by Editor | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
Space News — February 22, 2016 by Mike Gruss WASHINGTON – Pentagon leaders say a new ground system for the next-generation of GPS satellites, one that has stymied Air Force officials and led to expensive cost overruns, is the Defense Department’s most troubled...
by Editor | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
USCG Press Release U.S. Coast Guard Approves Official Electronic Charts WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard published guidance that allows mariners to use electronic charts and publications instead of paper charts, maps and publications. The Coast Guard published...