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U.S. Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Third and Fourth GPS III Satellites    January 12, 2012

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $238 million contract for production of the third and fourth satellites in the next-generation GPS III constellation. The acquisition of the next two GPS III satellites at one time will allow the Lockheed Martin-led team to maximize efficiencies in...More>>

Raytheon to Develop GPS-degraded Munitions Guidance     January 9, 2012

Munitions guidance experts at the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif., will design and demonstrate navigation and guidance technologies that can keep new generations of deep-penetrating bombs and missiles on target in conditions where signals from GPS satellite...More>>

Did Spoofing Down Drone?    December 16, 2011

Press stories speculate that GPS spoofing was used to get the U.S. Air Force RQ-170 Sentinel Drone to land in Iran. By spoofing GPS, Iranian engineers were able to get the drone to "land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications."More>>


Defense Newsletter: Editor's Column
Rugged GPS-Enabled Windows Laptops    February 8, 2012

Article By: Don Jewell

I brushed the snow from my keyboard and in my mind I could hear the neighbors whispering, "Call the men in white coats, there he goes again." They may have cause for concern, as I am sitting on my deck during a lull in a major blizzard, typing on a laptop computer half buried in snow. My warfighter...More>>



Security & Surveillance Articles
Out in Front: When the Gavel Comes Down    February 1, 2012

Article By: Alan Cameron

Perhaps you don’t track suspected criminals in your spare time, nor do you design or supply a GNSS product that does so. Still, the fresh Supreme Court ruling on GPS use for this purpose reverberates for you, in ways yet unknown. The most interesting part of the court’s ruling pops up in a...More>>


Precision Guidance Articles
Mitigation for Missiles    June 1, 2011

Article By: Ahmed M. Kamel, Daniele Borio, John Nielsen, Gérard Lachapelle

A fuzzy tracking system performs as a narrow bandwidth tracking system in terms of noise reduction, and a wide bandwidth tracking system in terms of dynamic response, overcoming the contradiction between receiver bandwidth requirements using classical tracking techniques for either noise reduction...More>>



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App for Law Enforcement, Intelligence   July 29, 2011

Polaris Wireless has announced the introduction of the Altus suite of applications for law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Altus is a software-based surveillance solution that enables accurate mass location — providing users the ability to simultaneously locate all subscribers in...More>>








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