Commerce PNT Challenges

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Commerce PNT Challenges Opportunities

• National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board
• March 29, 2007

Ed Morris, DirectorOffice of Space
CommercializationNational Oceanic and
Atmospheric AdministrationU.S. Department of
Commerce
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Overview

• Commerce involvement in GPS
• U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy
• Challenges and Opportunities
• Expectations for the Advisory Board

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Commerce Involvement in GPS

• User
• NOAA Vessel navigation, fisheries enforcement,
  remote sensing, GIS, surveying, weather
  forecasting, satellite operations
• NIST Timing, construction robotics
• Census Locate homes, plot population trends
• Provider/Developer
• National Continuously Operating Reference Station
  (CORS) network
• Atmospheric models
• Clock technology

• Manager
• Member of National Space-Based PNT Executive
  Committee (EXCOM) Host of Coordination Office
• Ensure free trade for PNT goods/services
• Co-manage spectrum (w/ FCC)
• Set export guidelines for equipment
• Promoter
• Represent commercial users industry in USG
  decision making and international negotiations
• Advances commercial GPS interests at public and
  international meetings
• Conduct GPS economic studies

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U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy

• Provide civil GPS and augmentations free of
  direct user fees on a continuous, worldwide basis
• Provide open, free access to information needed
  to use civil GPS and augmentations
• Improve performance of GPS and augmentations
• Seek to ensure that international space-based PNT
  systems are interoperable with civil GPS and
  augmentations or, at a minimum, are compatible

Policy stability and transparency improve
industry confidence and investment
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Challenges Opportunities

• GPS Modernization
• L2C and the estimation of benefits
• Expanding number of satellite navigation systems
  and service providers
• Compatibility and Interoperability
• Compatible trade and commercial use principles
• U.S.- EU working group on trade civil
  applications

Free access to civil GNSS signals and design
information from multiple systems will create
opportunity for industry and users
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Expectations for the Advisory Board

• Bring user and manufacturer perspectives into
  Departmental and EXCOM deliberations
• Recommend establishing a subcommittee with
  additional industry expertise to focus
  exclusively on commercial issues

Commerce looks forward to working with the
Advisory Board on commercial issues
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Contact Information

• Office of Space CommercializationNational
  Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationU.S.
  Department of Commerce6818 Herbert C. Hoover
  Building Washington, D.C. 20230
• www.nesdis.noaa.gov/spacespace.commerce_at_noaa.gov
  [phone]