GPS technologies

Spatial Networks, a privately held firm that provides proprietary geospatial applications, has completed the acquisition of Tampa-based TrekServ, a privately held tracking-technology firm. Details of the agreement were not made public.br/br/[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]img src=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/GpsAvionicsTransportation/~4/j7NBev5q4lg” height=”1″ width=”1″/

Northrop Grumman Corporation (Reston, Virginia) has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Ground Control Segment (OCX), achieving two major milestone reviews within a matter of weeks, the company announced Tuesday.

European aerospace companies may soon pay for their inability to come to terms under Galileo’s earlier public-private partnership, scuttled last year. Outside players including U.S. contractors Lockheed Martin and Boeing may be admitted to the Galileo game.

This column brings you an excerpt from the panel I moderated January 27, in the Charlemagne Conference Center in Brussels. The Growing Galileo 2009 Conference was sponsored by the European GNSS Supervisory Authority, on the occasion of the FP7 Second Call for Galileo exploratory applications. Representatives of NavTeq, STMicroelectronics, eRide, and SANEF gave their views on the GNSS…br/br/[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GpsSystemIntegrationDesignTest/~4/527617478″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

Skyhook Wireless has unveiled XPS 2.0, its next-generation hybrid positioning system that combines signals from cellular broadcast towers to its hybrid Wi-Fi and GPS system.

Texas-based Celevoke and Italy’s Magneti Marelli are integrating Celevoke’s telematics technology with Magneti Marelli’s anti-theft hardware and tracking system in the Brazilian market.

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After a brief Galileo snapshot of current status, I will proceed as requested with predictions of life in a multiple-GNSS world. We have secured an additional budget of ¤3.4 billion mainly for developing and launching the Galileo constellation, with the key objective of a full operational capability in 2013.

A paper presented by Cornell University researchers at this year’s ION GNSS conference on the possibility of spoofing GPS has garnered mainstream attention.

Procon Inc. and DriveOK Inc. have inked a merger deal in which mobile resource management supplier Procon will acquire one hundred percent of GPS tracking equipment and service supplier DriveOK and its affiliates.