November 1, 2019 By Frank Sargeant, The Fishing Wire One of the reasons I’m inclined to sneak off to places like the high-country trout streams of Colorado now and then is because if you get back in far enough, you’re off the grid—you’re no longer “connected”, and those clients whom I love so dearly because they put food on my table but hate so much because they frequently message me at 5 a.m. with jobs […]

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation No. 6913G619Q300177 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). This solicitation is being conducted in accordance with the policies and procedures prescribed in FAR Part […]

This month, the University of Texas at Austin became a major research hub for the U.S. Army Futures Command. On Oct. 12, the Futures Command broke ground on a $130 million research facility at the Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus in Bryan, Texas. Efforts at both locations will include research on advanced and assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems. The Army Futures Command was established in Austin during the summer of 2018. It […]

October 30, 2019 When Chase and Aimee Bartee got in their car — stuffed to the roof with gear — to travel nearly 1,000 miles to a largely roadless, uninhabited area of Canada, they weren’t entirely sure what they were getting into. The plan was to travel by car, train and floatplane to Labrador, Canada, where 100,000 square miles of raw wilderness awaited them. It’s a place where — at least according to written record […]

Photo: Uber Uber Elevate, Uber’s aviation division, unveiled a new food-delivery drone at Forbes’ Under 30 Summit in Detroit on Monday, according to various news reports. The six-rotor UAV is vertical- and horizontal flight-capable, Uber Elevate head Eric Allison said at the conference. It has a range of 18 miles and an 18-minute flight time, and can carry enough food for two adults. The drones will land in designated safe-landing zones, where human couriers will […]

October 28, 2019 The Garmin Overlander is an all-terrain, all-in-one GPS navigator specifically designed to fit the needs of the growing overlanding community. From navigating the intricate roads of suburbia to exploring remote regions of the great outdoors, the Overlander offers turn-by-turn, world-renowned directions from Garmin and built-in topo (topography) maps. Thanks to this detailed topo mapping data, travelers can use the Overlander for off-grid guidance covering public land boundaries, 4×4 roads for North and […]

The UK has been accelerating plans to develop its own global navigation satellite system after its exclusion from secure aspects of Galileo as a result of Brexit. A satellite scientist on Friday proposed the UK Government ditch plans for the country’s own full-blown GPS system, while suggesting that an MOD defence program called Skynet 6 be used to piggyback a system to rival the EU’s Galileo, reported the Daily Express. […]

Photo: SimActive SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, announces that its Correlator3D software has been used by Air Data Solutions (ADS) in Florida to determine financial assistance following Hurricane Dorian. Aerial imagery was collected before the storm for pre-hurricane assessment and after for damage analysis. A Phase One 100MP aerial camera owned by ADS was flown to gather high-resolution images of the affected areas. The data was then processed by SimActive software to create […]

October 24, 2019 By Herman Bonner, Communications Specialist, Firstbeat Physiologists, sports scientists and trainers have long used training load monitoring as a frontline tool to help elite athletes efficiently maximize their potential and minimize injury risks. In recent years, the ability to record the impact of your activities has become increasingly available with GPS training watches, smartwatches, cycling computers and other fitness devices. In this interview, physiologist Aki Pulkkinen, M.Sc., Firstbeat co-founder and current head […]

The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit. The COps system will allow the Air Force to operationally command and control the new, more powerful GPS III satellites as well as legacy GPS satellites currently in the constellation. The first GPS III satellite was launched on Dec. 23, 2018. […]