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>>

PORTLAND, Oregon — Spectracom announced at the ION-GNSS conference the introduction of new capabilities for its GSG line of GPS GNSS constellation simulators. These features reinforce Spectracom’s offerings for flexible, user-friendly, and affordable characterization and test of GPS and GNSS...More>>

NovAtel Inc. has introduced the newest member of its OEM6 next-generation receiver family: the OEM615. At 46 x 71 x 11 millimeters and weighing 24 grams, the diminutive OEM615 provides precise positioning in a familiar, compact form factor.More>>

The week before Thanksgiving a company called LightSquared applied to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) for modification of its authority for Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC). The company has asked the FCC to grant it permission to broadcast a co-primary terrestrial wireless service...More>>

The 50th Space Wing's 2nd Space Operations Squadron accepted command and control of the first Global Positioning System Block IIF satellite at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket carrying the first Boeing-built...More>>

The GPS IIF satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral AFS on May 27, 2010, is now in the middle of its checkout process, and civil signal monitoring is an integral part of the GPS Wing's L-Band Signal-in-Space (SIS) performance assessment, according to Rick Hamilton, CGSIC Executive Secretariat of...More>>

GPS Source has added to its product line with the GLI Echo II, a GPS smart repeater. A primary LRU for GPS retransmission, it will provide a wireless or wired GPS signal live inside any military vehicle or aircraft, according to the company.More>>

This year for the first time the Space Foundation featured a full day of Cyberspace or Cyber 1.0 with topnotch senior speakers and expert panel members at the National Space Symposium (NSS) in Colorado. It was well worthwhile and I predict this part of the NSS will only continue to grow.More>>

The Global Positioning Systems Wing will be hosting on February 12 an Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) teleconference meeting for the document IS-GPS-200E (NAVSTAR GPS Space Segment/Navigation User Interfaces). The meeting will address comments received on L2 Phase Relationships after the...More>>

Precision technology company InterSense, Inc. has unveiled the NavChip OEM Developer’s Kit at the Institute of Navigation’s 2009 GNSS show. The kit includes a pre-release engineering sample of InterSense’s NavChip, which the company expects to become the industry’s first commercial inertial...More>>