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LightSquared and GPS: Our Story So Far
"GPS
has become a key component of the U.S. national infrastructure,
the driver of a significant part of the civilian economies of the world,
and the enabler of millions of professional precision uses and consumer
benefits. The viability of the GPS signal is now threatened - ironically
by what appears to be a misguided attempt to increase accessibility to
broadband by creating a needless zero-sum result for customers who want
both services."
- Joe Paiva
"Act Now to Protect GPS Signal," GPS World, March 2011
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00
p.m. Eastern / 5:00 p.m. GMT
Moderator: Alan Cameron,
Editor-In-Chief, GPS World
Panelists: Captain Joe Burns,
Managing Director of Technology and Flight Test, United Airlines
Eric Gakstatter,
Editor, Geospatial Solutions and GPS World's Survey Scene Newsletters
Bill Klepczynski,
Owner, Global Timing Services, LLC.
Logan Scott, Principal, Logan
Scott Consulting
Platinum
Sponsor: Hemisphere GPS
Duration: 60 minutes
A panel of experts
will discuss findings contained in the latest status report by the FCC
Technical Working Group on LightSquared/GPS Interference Issue. The group
is scheduled to file its second report to the Federal Communications
Commission on April 15, so we should have the freshest updates available!
Webinar speakers will be announced at a later date; we plan on
representation from the high-precision sector, aviation, consumer
handsets, and timing infrastructure.
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Who Should Attend?
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What You'll Learn:
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- Satellite Design and Test Manufacturers
- Constellation Design and Test Manufacturers
- Receiver Design Manufacturers
- Antenna Design Manufacturers
- Industrial Equipment Manufacturers
- Software Manufacturers
- GPS End-Use Manufacturers
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- What results have been found so far in
interference testing between Lightsquared terrestrial transmitters
in the L Band 1 (1525 MHz–1559 MHz) immediately adjacent to
the band (1559–1610 MHz) where GPS and other GNSSs operate.
- What actions are recommended to concerned
members of the GNSS community.
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Alan Cameron is editor in chief of GPS World magazine,
where he has worked since 2000. He also writes the monthly GNSS System
Design e-mail newsletter and the Wide Awake blog. Both these can be found
at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "tech.questexmediagroup.com" claiming to be www.gpsworld.com. He recently addressed the Civil GPS
Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) on the topic of "Addiction: the
First Annual Meeting of Accuracy Anonymous" and staged the Grand
Game of GNSS at the magazine's annual Leadership Dinner for 120 guests
and players during the 2010 ION GNSS Conference, in Portland, OR.
Captain Joe
Burns is a
recognized expert on commercial aviation connectivity equipment and
systems, as well as next-generation systems for aviation operations,
navigation and surveillance. Currently, Mr. Burns serves on the Executive
Advisory Board for Position, Navigation and Time (GPS), the Advisory
Board for the National
Center for
Atmospheric Research, and as Chairman of the ATA Air Traffic Control
Council. He is former Vice Chairman of the Airborne Internet Consortium,
an industry/government group working on standards and applications for
Internet use on commercial aircraft, as well as Chairman of ATN Systems,
Inc., an airline datalink consortium. Captain Burns currently serves as
Managing Director of Technology and Flight Test at United Airlines, one
of the largest international carriers based in the United States.
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Dr. Bill
Klepczynski is head of Global Timing Services, LLC. He served as director
of the Time Service Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory and has had
several appointments as a consultant, including Government Executive
Fellow for Institute of Navigation and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, tasked with providing technical expertise to the
Executive Branch of the U.S.
government, 2004–2005. He is a charter member of GPS World's
Editorial Advisory Board, since 1990.
Eric
Gakstatter
has spent the past 20 years in the GPS surveying/mapping industry. His
first ten years in GPS were spent as a product manager and the last ten
years as a GPS user and consultant using many different brands of GPS
equipment and software. He is a non-partisan advocate for the GPS user
community. Eric is editor of GPS World's twice-monthly Survey Scene newsletter
and editor of Geospatial Solutions.
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Logan Scott is a consultant specializing in radio
frequency signal processing and waveform design for communications,
navigation, radar, and emitter location. He has more than 32 years of
military and civil GPS systems engineering experience. At Texas
Instruments, he pioneered approaches for building high-performance,
jamming-resistant digital receivers. While at Omnipoint, a cellular
carrier, he developed cross-system interference mitigation strategies
that led to the FCC awarding Omnipoint a Pioneer’s preference license
for the New York MTA. He is currently active in precision indoor
navigation, a GPS jammer location system, and, location based encryption
and authentication. Logan holds 33 US
patents.
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