Raytheon plans to deliver the final phase of the GPS Ground Control System (OCX) upgrade to the United States Air Force by June 2021, despite past delays to the program. A report by the General Accountability Office (GAO), issued in May, said the Air Force has yet to develop full cost estimates for the new ground system, as well as the user equipment needed to access the expanded capabilities of GPS III. In the report, […]

September 24, 2019 Take the guesswork out of planning your workouts. Now all Garmin Connect users have access to free, premade workouts with step-by-step instructions you can download to your watch1. The range is incredible, offering a variety of difficulty levels, durations, muscle groups and activity options. You can also view easy-to-follow yoga, Pilates, cardio and strength workout animations on your phone or in a web browser — even on some watches2. If you don’t […]

Navigating to within three inches of your destination is made possible by algorithms and software developed by NASA. These power a NASA system that augments the raw navigation signals provided by the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellites to support airplane navigation around the world, direct emergency responders and, soon, guide self-driving cars. The Air Force began launching global positioning satellites in 1978, and it continues to operate and maintain the satellite network […]

GPS might be interfered with globally Multiple, diverse PNT sources, modular open system needed for receivers Civil use hampering military efforts to leverage GPS for military advantage DoD PNT efforts to be increasingly classified, not shared with civil users In August of this year the United States Department of Defense (DoD) publicly released a version of its “Strategy for the Department of Defense Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise” with the tagline “Ensuring a U.S. […]

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Photo: Tallysman Tallysman GNSS has added three new antennas to its Helical antenna line. Released earlier this year, the helical antenna line provides unprecedented performance in a lightweight, compact form factor. The line now extends beyond dual-band GNSS and Iridium support to also include single and triple GNSS frequency bands. Tallysman helical antennas are designed for applications that require high performance and versatility, with an absolute minimum of weight, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). […]

October 2, 2019 Missing has always just been a part of life for a clay shooter. A part of life that has been, frankly, infuriating. How many times have we stood there, after we’ve pulled the trigger, watching an intact clay spinning into the horizon, scratching our head, asking “How on earth did I miss that?” Or worse yet, having one or two misses, going on tilt, and ultimately crumbling on the line as zeros […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. received a $1.39 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force for its embedded GPS system. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, includes production, sustainment and engineering technical services in support of its Embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System Modernization, EGI/EGI-M, system. The open-systems architecture of EGI/EGI-M incorporates a military code GPS receiver to add clarity to GPS signals, with the primary lead platforms for the new technology expected to […]

LORD Corporation has released the latest version of its SensorConnect sensing software, featuring significant updates that support sensor management and data collection and visualization for MicroStrain inertial products. The update is designed to fully replace the inertial data collection and visualization capabilities in MIP Monitor. MIP Monitor will continue to be available on the website, but will no longer be updated to support new products. “We’re excited to support users with a desktop software solution […]

Podcast: Play in new window David Burnham, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, has traveled the globe documenting the natural history of dinosaurs. He has published extensive studies on some of earth’s most fearsome predators — the Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. His team uses Garmin products extensively in his field work, and Burnham recently unearthed a juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex skull that may completely change how we perceive the […]