By Col. Ryan Colburn Director, Spectrum Warfare Division and Portfolio Architect, Space and Missile Systems Center The United States’ Global Positioning System is used now more than ever before. With an estimated four billion users worldwide, industries of all kinds…
Many have debated how the surveying profession has morphed into something less than what our predecessors would have called surveying. In earlier times, the surveyor was an honored figure in the community and held in high regard, like the local…
The European Space Agency has selected GMV to supply the radio-frequency constellation simulator (RFCS) for the Galileo second generation (G2G) program. According to GMV, this is the multinational’s largest contract in Portugal. From Portugal, GMV will lead a consortium to…
Ground antenna at Schriever Air Force Base, home of the 50th Space Wing. (Photo: Raytheon) The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded a $ 228 million contract to Raytheon Intelligence and Space for the GPS…
Partnership with Fujitsu will help city track bicycles, e-scooters and ridesharing companies The mobility department of Munich, Germany, has selected Hexagon Geospatial to implement a smart monitoring system to better manage and understand the impacts of shared mobility services in…
Adva’s OSA 5405-MB provides nanosecond timing at a network’s edge. (Photo: Business Wire) Adva has launched the OSA 5405-MB, a compact outdoor precision time protocol (PTP) grandmaster clock with multi-band GNSS receiver and integrated antenna. Part of the OSA 5405…
Top-level current, former PNT leaders to discuss findings A “Who’s Who” of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) leaders will gather virtually at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT on May 5 to discuss findings of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT)…
Aerial imagery company Nearmap is partnering with Geographic Technologies Group (GTG), which helps local government agencies throughout the United States and Canada with geographic information systems (GIS). GTG offers local governments with GIS services including strategic planning, consulting, comprehensive data…
