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12/17/04

Transportation to lead civilian GPS management

By Mary Mosquera
GCN Staff

President Bush updated the nation's Global Positioning System
policy, giving the Transportation Department authority equal to that of
the Defense Department on the committee that manages GPS technology and
spectrum.

Transportation has committed itself to helping strengthen GPS to ensure
noninterference from competitors and to enhance the technology's
civilian uses.

The White House directive, issued earlier this month, updates a 1996
directive from former President Clinton. The White House Office of
Science and Technology released details this week.

The revisions update military and homeland security roles for GPS and
designate it as a component of the U.S. critical infrastructure. The
change in governance and resourcing reflects the fact that there are
now more civilian uses for GPS than military.

"DOD created it, owns and operates it, but GPS has become an enabling
technology in the civilian sector and definitely that is what will go
on in transportation in the future," said Jeffrey Shane, DOT
undersecretary for policy, in a teleconference with reporters
yesterday.

Transportation is the lead agency for promoting capabilities in the
civilian sector and for ensuring that GPS services meet or exceed any
future systems. The European Union is developing its own Galileo
satellite system.

"We take the challenge of Galileo seriously. We intend to retain
leadership," Shane said. However, the United States and European Union
are conducting talks exploring interoperability between the two
systems, he said.

Within Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration is the
biggest user and enhancer of GPS. "It is critical to the aviation
industry," said FAA administrator Marion Blakey.

FAA has invested $950 million so far in the Wide Area Augmentation
System, a GPS-based navigation and landing system that will allow
precision instrument approaches at thousands of runways with little or
no ground-based capability. WAAS, which is designed to improve the
accuracy, integrity and availability of information coming from GPS
satellites, will be available in limited versions throughout most of
the country in 2008.

DOD provided funding for GPS improvements under the previous directive.
Funds for capabilities specific to the civil sector will now come
through Transportation, with participation by the Office of Management
and Budget and the White House, Shane said. The first meeting of the
newly structured executive committee will be in January.

Stan Gosnell · Guest

Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in news:olPwd.590142$D%.266303
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Stan Gosnell · Guest

jon@parmetpc.volpe.dot.gov wrote in news:1103384810.194863.76670
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Guest

Heh ;)

Ok, did a little surfin' this morning. Perhaps the prime can provide
somewhat better accuracy:

from page 20 of
<http://www.raytheon.com/products/stellent/groups/ncs/documents/content/cms01_047039.pdf>:

"Raytheon and the FAA are working together to deliver the Full
Operational Capability (FOC) of WAAS in 2006."

Of course, schedules being what they are, YMMV ;)

I do know that current activities being looked at include additional
reference stations to extend the availability at least up in Alaska.

Guest

Heh ;)

Ok, did a little surfin' this morning. Perhaps the prime can provide
somewhat better accuracy:

from page 20 of
<http://www.raytheon.com/products/stellent/groups/ncs/documents/content/cms01_047039.pdf>:

"Raytheon and the FAA are working together to deliver the Full
Operational Capability (FOC) of WAAS in 2006."

Of course, schedules being what they are, YMMV ;)

I do know that current activities being looked at include additional
reference stations to extend the availability at least up in Alaska.
Regards,
Jon

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