March 14th PNT Hill Day Report

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March 14th PNT Hill Day Report

• David Logsdon
• Co-Chair
• PNT Advisory Board Strategic Engagement Panel

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Observations

• Two panels
• USG
• Private Industry
• Capacity Crowd
• Hill staffers from Committees of Jurisdiction in
  attendance

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Areas of PNT Applications

• CONSTRUCTION

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Trimble Overview

• Survey
• Machine Control
• Construction Instruments

Engineering Construction

• Agriculture
• Mapping GIS

Field Solutions

• Fleet Tracking
• Mobile Worker Productivity

Mobile Solutions

• Embedded GPS Products
• Timing
• Inertial Systems

Advanced Devices
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GPS efficiency for Construction rework

• Were completing projects sooner, and weve
  literally cut our rework by 70 by using the GPS
  system.
• -Joey Keiffer, General superintendent, Malphrus
  Construction Company

Bechtel operation at Oak Creek power plant
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Areas of PNT Applications

• AGRICULTURE

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• USDA supports GPS Modernization and the
  implementation of additional civil signals.
• USDA supports the advancement of GPS
  augmentations, especially protecting and
  enhancing the Nationwide Differential GPS
  (NDGPS).

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Department of Agriculture Applications
10,000 USDA personnel on the landscape every
day, using GPS to provide program assistance,
service, and technical support to USDA customers
and partners

• Safety-of-Life operations Fire, Snow Survey
• Administration of the Farm Bill
• Conservation Planning and Application
• Natural and Cultural Resource Data Collection,
• Inventorying and Monitoring
• Landscape Characterization Engineering
  Applications
• Soil Mapping

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Deeres use of GPS

• Deere needed a way to accurately position
  agricultural equipment on a global basis
• First introduce in mid 1990s for yield
  monitoring
• StarFire? is an absolute positioning system that
  does not require base stations
• 50,000 dual frequency receivers shipped

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GPS Guidance benefits

• Allows controlled traffic
• Reduces compaction, boost yields
• Greater machine utilization
• Less experienced operators achieve excellent
  results
• Significantly less operator stress and fatigue
• Night time operation

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Applications

• Precision Farming
• Water Management
• Automatic Steering
• Control Traffic

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GreenStar AutoTrac hands-free steering

• Parallel tracking
• Straight track in early days
• Now hands-free guidance on contours, curved
  tracks
• Available on a wide range of self-propelled
  equipment

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Areas of PNT Applications

• AUTOMOTIVE

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Telematics Availability 6 Million Vehicles

• OnStar 5 million
• General Motors
• Standard in 2008
• nearly all vehicles
• Lexus
• Lexus Link

• ATX nearly 1 million
• Mercedes - Teleaid
• BMW - Assist

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Making a Distinctive Difference

• Monthly, telematics forward to PSAPs
  approximately
• 3,000 automatic airbag/crash notifications and
• 17,000 emergency and Good Samaritan calls.
• As well as
• 33,000 requests for roadside assistance
• 66,000 door unlocks
• 700 stolen vehicle location requests
• Over 600,000 requests for routing
• And among non-GPS based services
• 30,000 remote diagnostics.

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• Interference Detection and Mitigation

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Interference Case Study

• Date 22 January 2007
• Location San Diego harbor south to Mexican
  border and up to 10 miles inland.
• Duration 1200-1600 PST
• Cause Unintentional Interference

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Interference Case Study
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
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Interference Case Study
General AviationPilot Report GPS Malfunction
AIS Display Console Anomaly
Medical Services Paging Provider Network
Inoperative 1.5 Hours 20 sites
Potential for First Responder Impacts
DGPS Site Inoperative 2 Hours
Cell Provider Network 150 sites detected error 2
sites inoperative
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IDM Plan Goals

• Coordinate domestic capabilities to identify,
  analyze, locate, attribute, and mitigate sources
  of interference to the GPS and its augmentations
• Collect, analyze, store, and disseminate
  interference reports from all sources to enable
  appropriate investigation, notification and
  enforcement action
• Develop and maintain capabilities, procedures and
  techniques, and routinely exercise civil
  contingency responses to ensure continuity of
  operations in the event that access to the GPS is
  disrupted or denied.

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IDM Implementation Actions

• August 2007 The President approved the National
  PNT IDM Plan
• January 2008 DHS signed IDM Plan Implementation
  Strategy into force
• DHS expected to issue publicly releasable fact
  sheet and summary of IDM Plan

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Implementation Actions

• February 7, 2008 DHS announced adoption of
  eLoran as a national backup to the GPS to
  mitigate any safety, security, or economic
  effects of a GPS outage or disruption
• Presidents Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request
• Migrate administration of LORAN-C from USCG to
  DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate
  (NPPD), includes transfer of budget authority for
  funding and personnel
• Prepare for conversion of Loran-C operations to
  eLoran
• NPPD to oversee development of eLoran to provide
  national backup capabilities for positioning,
  navigation, and timing.
• Coast Guard will continue operation of the system
  in 2009 on a reimbursable basis

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• Our Aging Constellation

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GPS Constellation StatusSatellite Age as of
March 2008
16
14
12
10
Years
8
6
BLOCK IIA
BLOCK IIR
BLOCK IIR-M
4
2
Satellite
53
25
26
27
52
58
24
23
39
35
34
36
33
40
30
38
43
46
47
59
60
61
32
37
55
57
51
44
41
54
56
45
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Observations and Recommendations

• For over a decade, both civil and commercial
  users have benefitted immensely from GPS
• For USG users, much greater efficiency has been
  one of the outcomes
• For the commercial industry, innovation has
  driven ROI for several industry sectors

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Observations and Recommendations

• For USG users, modernization is key
• For commercial users, a robust signal provided
  with no user fees is key
• No user fees ability to spend money on
  innovation
• Robust, consistent signal (and ICD)ability to
  spend money on innovation

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Observations and Recommendations

• Many champions that will speak out on behalf of
  GPS
• Recommend having panelists at key industry sector
  conferences and forums
• Recommend having forum at the U.S. Chamber of
  Commerce focusing on PNT applications as they
  pertain to Energy and Climate