by Editor | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog
That’s the problem facing military planners as they try to sort through the increasing reliance of equipment and troops on positioning data from satellite networks at a time when the vulnerabilities of GPS are becoming more apparent. This month, a group of...
by Editor | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog
On October 2, NextNav announced that Broadcom Corporation acquired a commercial license to NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) technology, a so-called terrestrial constellation that brings GNSS-like performance to indoor and urban environments where...
by Editor | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
Symmetricom has introduced a new category to its SyncWorld Ecosystem Program dedicated to the power utility industry. The SyncWorld Power Ecosystem aims to facilitate unified deployments of timing and synchronization in substation modernization and synchrophasor...
by Editor | Oct 16, 2013 | Blog
New technologies are emerging to fill the gap left by GNSS services whose signals cannot penetrate indoor spaces. Using everything from triangulation and flickering light bulbs to the Earth’s magnetic field, start-up companies are lining up to help brick-and-mortar...
by Editor | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog
Signal Sentry 1000, an Exelis product that detects and locates GPS interference sources in 3-D by using longitude, latitude and altitude has demonstrated successful results during a planned field testing event held last week at the Vidsel Test Range in Sweden....
by Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog
A group gathered on July 29 at the Institute to celebrate the recent installation of a new IEEE plaque commemorating the LORAN, a radio navigation system created in 1940 at the MIT Radiation (Rad) Lab. The LORAN (which stands for Long Range Navigation) is one of four...
