March 14th PNT Hill Day Report

David LogsdonCo-Chair

PNT Advisory Board Strategic Engagement Panel

Observations

• Two panels– USG– Private Industry

• Capacity Crowd

• Hill staffers from Committees of Jurisdiction in attendance

Areas of PNT Applications

CONSTRUCTION

Trimble OverviewEngineering & Construction

• Survey• Machine Control• Construction Instruments

Field Solutions • Agriculture• Mapping & GIS

Mobile Solutions • Fleet Tracking• Mobile Worker Productivity

Advanced Devices • Embedded GPS Products• Timing• Inertial Systems

GPS efficiency for Construction: rework

“We’re completing projects sooner, and we’ve 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

Areas of PNT Applications

AGRICULTURE

• 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).

Department of Agriculture Applications

• 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

10,000+ USDA personnel on the landscape every day, using GPS to provide program assistance, service, and technical support to USDA customers and

partners

Deere’s use of GPS• Deere needed a way

to accurately position agricultural equipment on a global basis

• First introduce in mid 1990’s for yield monitoring

• StarFire is an absolute positioning system that does not require base stations

• 50,000 dual frequency receivers shipped

GPS

StarFireCommunications

Satellite

DGPSCorrections

Galileo

WAAS

EGNOSGlonass

MSAS

Applications

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

Areas of PNT Applications

AUTOMOTIVE

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

Making a Distinctive DifferenceMonthly, 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.

Interference Detection and Mitigation

• 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

Interference Case Study

UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED

Interference Case Study

DGPS SiteInoperative

2 Hours

AIS Display ConsoleAnomaly

Cell Provider Network150 sites detected error

2 sites inoperative

Medical Services Paging Provider Network

Inoperative

1.5 Hours – 20 sites

General AviationPilot Report GPS

Malfunction

Potential for First Responder Impacts

Interference Case Study

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.

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

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

• President’s 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

Our Aging Constellation

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GPS Constellation StatusSatellite Age as of March 2008

2423 55 57

BLOCK IIA BLOCK IIR BLOCK IIR-M

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

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

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