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JUNE 8, 2021

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$17M proposed for DOT resilient PNT initiatives

By Dana Goward

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to extend Trump policies and repeal timing law counter to its own study and industry input.

US Congress may move against Chinese-made drones

A bill moving through the U.S. Congress would impose a five-year ban on United States government purchases of drones manufactured or assembled in China.

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Controversial GAO report on DOD nav webinar June 15

ION and the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation are hosting a webinar to discuss May’s GAO report with two of its authors on June 15 at 11 a.m. ET.

TRX Systems delivers NAVWAR threat mapping for foot soldiers

TRX Systems has delivered a Dismount Electronic Warfare (EW) Kit prototype to the U.S. Army. The kit enables dismounted soldiers to detect, map and mitigate the impact of navigational warfare (NAVWAR) attacks.

Thales Alenia Space to assess feasibility of EGNSS integrity service

Thales Alenia Space has been selected to assess the feasibility of an integrity service to complement the EGNSS High Accuracy service, which will pave the way for use in autonomous vehicles.

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Hexagon’s new HxGN Mass Transit improves public transportation operations

Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division has introduced HxGN Mass Transit, a geospatial transportation infrastructure management system with 3D and artificial intelligence capabilities for visualizing and analyzing transit and rail assets and operations.

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How Post-Processing Works and Enhances Surveying Projects

A post-processing software improves the performance and precision of any surveying project, even in the most challenging conditions. Post-processing gives access to new possibilities such as the merge of forward and backward processing, providing an overall better accuracy. Discover more about how post-processing works in this article.

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How inertial and alternative PNT can mitigate GPS vulnerabilities

While GPS will always be an integral and irreplaceable part of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technology, assured PNT must take a layered approach for true resiliency.

Geoflex cloud-based geolocation company honored with award

Geoflex, a geolocation company, won the Jury Award of SPRING 50, a competition of deep tech startups that took place on May 20 in Paris-Saclay, the largest French research cluster, located south of Paris.

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Spirent GSS9000 constellation simulator enhanced: unrivaled update rate

The Spirent GSS9000 constellation simulator now has a software and hardware update rate of up to 2 kHz, particularly benefitting high-dynamic applications, such as rockets and missiles. This improves accuracy of the simulated trajectory without compromising performance.

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GNSS in the fast lane: Meeting autonomous vehicle navigation challenges

The advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is one of three revolutions in the automotive industry that will likely change this country as much as cars did over the last century. The other two are the conversion from internal combustion engines to electric ones and the integration of cars into digital traffic networks.

Testing autonomous vehicles inside and out

Racelogic helps vehicle manufacturers develop autonomous vehicle technology and test them on indoor test tracks and the open road.

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GPS Vulnerability Mitigation: Using Inertial & Alternative RF PNT

Date: June 24
Sponsored Content by: Spirent Federal

Summary: While GPS will always be an integral and irreplaceable part of PNT, Assured PNT must take a layered approach due to GNSS vulnerabilities. Join Spirent and Northrop Grumman as we examine the future of inertial navigation in Assured PNT and GPS augmentation, EGI-Modernization, coherent GNSS and inertial sensor emulation, and in exploring and simulating emerging alternative space-based PNT RF signals.

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