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JNC 2010 Organizers

Chair: Dr. Mikel Miller, Air Force Research Laboratory

Vice Chair: Paul Olson, U.S. Army Communications and
Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC)

Track Chairs FOUO Sessions:
Jan Anszperger, C.S. Draper Laboratory
Greg Graham, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile RDEC
Neeraj Pujara, Air Force Research Laboratory

Classified Sessions: West Kasper, Joint Navigation Warfare Center

Panel Discussions: Steven Ganop, Applied Research Laboratory,
Pennsylvania State University

The Joint Services Data Exchange (JSDE) and The Institute of Navigation (ION) will co-host the 2010 Joint Navigation Conference (JNC 2010) for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security at the Wyndham Resort, Orlando, Florida from June 7-10, 2010. The theme for this year’s conference will be “Military Navigation Technology: The Foundation for Military Ops”.

The 2010 JNC will be the largest U.S. military navigation conference of the year with joint service and government participation. The event will focus on technical advances in positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) with emphasis on joint development, test and support of affordable PNT systems, logistics, and integration. From an operational perspective, the conference will also focus on advances in battlefield applications of GPS, critical strengths or weaknesses of fielded navigation devices, warfighter PNT requirements & solutions, and navigation warfare.

JNC conference attendance will be controlled by the Joint Navigation Warfare Center and will be restricted to citizens of U.S.A., Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. This “4 eyes” restriction applies to the entire conference; both classified and non-classified sessions. Participants must establish a need to know and be with the U.S. government, U.S. government contractors or allied personnel.

Abstract Submission: Abstracts Due February 19, 2010
 All abstracts must be written for public release with intent to present in a 4-Eyes FOUO environment. Abstracts should include a presentation summary consisting of approximately 500 words, describe objectives, anticipated or actual results, conclusions, any key innovative steps and the significance of your work. Short abstracts, abstracts submitted for U.S. only presentation and abstracts not approved for public release will be de-weighted in the selection process. Note that you must be a citizen of the USA, AUS, CAN or the UK to submit an abstract. Abstracts should be submitted electronically no later than February 19.

To submit your abstract go to the abstract submission page. Complete all boxes on the form. Enter or paste abstract text directly into the appropriate box on the online submission form. Abstracts may also be e-mailed to abstracts@ion.org as a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or text file. Please indicate the abstract title, the most appropriate session(s) for the paper, a list of all authors and affiliations, and the primary contact author’s complete mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail.

Abstracts received will be acknowledged electronically. Abstract titles and corresponding contact authors will be posted weekly on the JNC website. If your name does not appear after two weeks, please contact the ION office at 703-383-9688 or via e-mail at meetings@ion.org. You will be notified of acceptance after March 15.

Classified Session Abstracts: Abstracts submitted for classified sessions should be written for public release and submitted according to the submission guidelines described above. If your abstract cannot be written for public release, please contact the ION National office for instructions (703-366-2723, tel; abstracts@ion.org). Final classified presentations will not be included in the conference proceedings.

List of Abstracts Received

Presentation Requirements
All presentations, unclassified and classified, must be releasable to AUS, CAN and UK. Organizations must provide foreign disclosure approval to the Joint Navigation Warfare Center NLT by May 3, 2010. Presenters are reminded that foreign disclosure approval does not authorize release under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Your organization must ensure appropriate ITAR approvals are obtained in accordance with your organizational policy.

Sessions will consist of presentations. An electronic copy of your final presentation (typically a PowerPoint file) with signed release form must be received by the ION National Office by May 3, 2010. Presenters will receive an speakers’s kit with presentation guidelines and additional meeting information. All presenters are required to pay conference registration fees. You must be a citizen of the USA, AUS, CAN or the UK to present at the conference.

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SESSION TOPICS

Warfighter Requirements & Solutions
Warfighter requirements, needs, and possible solutions involving operational PNT. In addition, presentations on logistic concerns (applied maintenance concepts; spares/replacement availability; interchangeability within host platforms; interoperability with form, fit, and function of host platforms), and International restrictions/concerns, as well as requirements for future technologies. In addition, PNT for Pointing and Stabilization; Tri-Service Programs & Commonality Considerations; User Comments and feedback; NDI/COTS; Homeland Security; and other critical issues such as Target Location Errors.
Chair: Ray Swider, Office Assistant Secretary of Defense
Co-Chair: Bill Bollwerk, U.S. Naval Observatory

Precise Time & Frequency
Precise time synchronization and clock research including advanced high performance clocks, developments in clock technology, time transfer and synchronization, and performance
in terms of accuracy, integrity, availability and service continuity.
Chair: Ed Powers, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Co-Chair: Bill Bollwerk, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

GPS and GLONASS Modernization, QZSS, & Other GNSS
New military capabilities and performance, including integrity and accuracy improvement concepts. Modernized space segment, control segment, and user equipment architectures and design. New GPS and GLONASS civil signals. Research and development status. Impact on future applications. Addition of Search & Rescue. QZSS status and design. COMPASS, IRNSS, and other potential navigation satellite systems.
Chair: Maj. Gerald Gallegos, Systems Engineering Verification Branch, GPS Wing, USAF
Co-Chair: Dr. John Betz, The MITRE Corporation

GNSS Antenna & Radio Technology
Antenna designs for GNSS with emphasis on size, gain control, multiple frequency coverage, multipath mitigation, and RF interference suppression. Phased array antennas such as controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) as well as performance assessment. Combined system antennas.
Chair: Jeff Ross, The MITRE Corporation
Co-Chair: Dr. Inder “Jiti” Gupta, The Ohio State University

GPS Augmentation Systems: Space and Ground
Space and ground based augmentation systems (iGPS, WAAS, JPALS, WAGE, etc.) technology and performance. Accuracy, integrity, availability and continuity performance for various architectures. Signal quality monitoring techniques and measured performance. New features, infrastructure and standardization evolutions. Status of implementation programs, equipment design, integration, testing and integrity monitoring considerations. Signal quality monitoring techniques and performance. Interoperability between augmentation systems.
Chair: Frank Lorge, Federal Aviation Administration
Co-Chair: Jim Doherty, Institute for Defense Analyses

GNSS Interference
Effects of interference on military receivers, interference mitigation techniques, limits of performance, interference effects on hazardously misleading information and integrity. Receiver design tradeoffs. Spectrum management, protection of navigation frequencies, interference issues, interference assessment, and test results.
Chair: Chaz Bowman, LinQuest Corporation
Co-Chair: Gary Rafferty, Joint Staff, JGS

Military GPS Receivers and Military GPS Receiver Technology
Military GPS receiver designs and algorithms. Future concepts including hardware, algorithms and techniques related to rapid acquisition, improved code and/or carrier tracking performance, high accuracy position solutions, reduced computational loads. In addition, flexible receiver architectures for GNSS receivers; receiver implementations using programmable processors or reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Unique approaches to military GPS software receivers. Unique advantages of software receivers. Implementation of new approaches. Demonstration of novel advantages of unique approaches to software receivers.
Chair: Maj. Christopher Williams, GPSW/ENI
Co-Chair: Dr. John Raquet, Air Force Institute of Technology

Military INS
The latest military INS developments and performance. Novel designs and implementations of INSs and their use in various military systems and integrations.
Chair: Anthony Kourepenis, C.S. Draper Laboratory
Co-Chair: Gregory Kohls, 647th Squadron, WPAFB

Multi-Sensor Navigation, Guidance & Control Systems
Advancements in integrated guidance, navigation and control systems for military systems. Improved hardware, interfaces, and miniaturized systems. Guidance, navigation, and control of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles. Integrated vehicle and sensor system design, and techniques.
Chair: Phil Bruner, Northrop Grumman
Co-Chair: Dr. Jacob Campbell, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate

Urban, Indoor, Subterranean Navigation (I and II)
Sensor and integrated system technology to achieve a robust and highly accurate system in realistic indoor, urban and subterranean environments. Emphasis on systems that require minimal preexisting infrastructure to enable precision location for military and first responder personnel navigation operations in urban canyons, buildings, and tunnels. Papers which present experimental results in realistic environments, provide measurement data/models of radio propagation and/or inertial errors, or the ability to model human motion in real environments, are encouraged. There will be two sessions under this topic.
Chairs: Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, DARPA
Co-Chair: Jalal Mapar, Department of Homeland Security

Land Applications
Concepts, requirements, performance and operational experience with the use of military navigation systems for land vehicle automation and guidance, and issues associated with precision control.
Chair: Prof. Terry Moore, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Co-Chair: Chris Roberts, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile RDEC

Embedded GPS/Inertial (EGI) Navigation Systems
This session will focus on the latest EGI developments, EGI Roadmap, EGI upgrade plans, operational activities using EGI equipment, EGI user feedback, EGI testing results, EGI logistics lessons learned.
Chair: Scott Leavy, Honeywell
Co-Chair: Vicki LeFevre, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile RDEC

Alternative Navigation Technologies
This session will focus on alternative navigation technologies to GPS. Presentations that describe navigation sensors and techniques using other RF-based signals of opportunity (SOOP), vision-aided, laser-aided, celestial, bathymetric, gravimetric, nature-inspired navigation, or other novel techniques that seek to provide navigation in environments where GPS is not available are highly desirable.
Chair: Dennis McCrady, Consultant
Co-Chair: John Del Colliano, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research Development & Engineering Center (CERDEC)

Military GPS Use and Experiences
GPS applications in military transport vehicles; unique applications for GPS in the military infrastructure, the combat environment, and non-combat applications; GPS as a force enhancer; GPS experience in exercises; GPS use by Allied Forces; GPS use in combat operations; GPS integration into other military applications, etc.
Chair: Maj. Mike Manor, 2SOPS, USAF
Co-Chair: Vince Stevens, Strategic Command

Marine Applications
Military navigation systems operation in a marine environment, including waterway navigation, harbor entrance/approach (HEA), port entry and docking, ocean and harbor control of vessels, and precision berthing operations. Abstract addressing military marine applications, including vessel tracking systems, mine recovery and exploration.
Chair: Dave Brown, Navigation Branch, USN
Co-Chair: Marvin May, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University

GPS in Military Applications/Navigation Warfare
Integration of GPS into new and existing military systems. M-code signal development and testing. Precision weapon delivery and military applications in land, sea, air, and space using GPS. Development of new military GPS and auxiliary sensor hardware. Includes interference and jamming aspects of GNSS from an unclassified perspective.
Chair: Col. Dan Wright, OASD NII
Co-Chair: Randy Rollo, SPAWAR

Military Unmanned Vehicle Navigation
Navigation technologies in unmanned military applications in the air, land, and sea. Topics include: autonomous control for landing, parking, or docking; cooperative control applications such as formation flying, aerial refueling; and other operations. Also integration with onboard components; antenna issues; incorporation with other augmentation systems; integrity and safety concerns; certification issues.
Chair: Timothy Klausutis, Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitons Directorate
Co-Chair: Don Venable, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate

Modeling & Simulation
Novel and interesting uses of software GNSS and INS models and simulations to prove military concepts, advance algorithms and the state of the art in navigation. Software-defined GNSS simulator applications and technology. The use of hardware-in-the-loop simulators for navigation research, development and evaluation.
Chair: Kim Wayland, NAVAIR
Co-Chair: Denice Jacobs, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate

Space & Satellite Applications
Applications of PNT systems on spaceborne platforms such as satellites, the space station, launch vehicles and interplanetary missions. Use of navigation sensors to aid primary objectives of orbit determination, attitude determination, and navigation, and application objectives such as gravity determination, and mapping from space. Advances in spacebased user equipment.
Chair: Eddy Emile, GPS Wing, USAF
Co-Chair: Ron Beard, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Aviation Applications
The use of navigation systems for military aviation, including future PNT requirements for aviation, integration into multi-mode systems and flight testing of PNT applications. Aircraft based processing, including integrity monitoring (RAIM/FDE) and GNSS/INS integration to support aviation requirements. Integration of satellite navigation technology into military aircraft design, air traffic management and airport surface navigation and guidance.
Chair: Lt. Col. Amy McCain, 746th Test Squadron, USAF
Co-Chair: Greg Kohls, 647th Squadron, WPAFB

OPERATIONAL SESSION TOPICS (CLASSIFIED)
Sponsored by: The Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC)
Classified presentations are being solicited on the following topics: Navwar threat; test and evaluation including testing activities and results including design of GNSS signal simulators and other test assets; modeling and simulation; and PNT operations and applications (military GNSS, military differential avionics implementations such as JPALS and military GNSS-INS integrations) including allied (AUS, CAN & UK partners) PNT initiatives. All classified presentations must be approved for 4-Eyes release.
Chair: West Kasper, Joint Navigation Warfare Center

Cross Talk Panel
The Joint Navigation Conference each year conducts “Cross Talk” - an interactive discussion between the audience and a panel of war fighters who have had recent operational experience. The purpose of Cross Talk is to inform the navigation development community on how to better formulate military navigation systems. Cross Talk’s panel members will make an opening statement that addresses the nature of their specialty or how current navigation systems are meeting the needs of their missions; be prepared to be “wowed” by film and photographs of their experiences. After the opening statements, questions will be taken from the audience. Moderator: Steve Ganop, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University Note: We are soliciting panel member participation from all services. We are looking for war fighters who have had operational experience in the last year; Electronic Warfare specialists are of particular interests. All those who can contribute to the panel are requested to contact Steven Ganop at steven-ganop@psu.edu, Phone: (215) 682-4006. Conference registration and hotel accommodations will be provided for panel participants.
Moderator: Steve Ganop, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University

Note: We are soliciting panel member participation from all services. We are looking for war fighters who have had operational experience in the last year; Electronic Warfare specialists are of particular interests. All those who can contribute to the panel are requested to contact Steven Ganop at steven-ganop@psu.edu, Phone: (215) 682-4006. Conference registration and hotel accommodations will be provided for panel participants.

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Conference Information
The conference will be hosted in an FOUO environment. Advance visit requests and approvals are required for all attendees. Participation will be restricted to: U.S. government, U.S. government contractors, and allied personnel from Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Foreign national participation will be limited to AUS, CAN and UK only. This “4 eyes” restriction applies to the entire conference; classified and non-classified sessions.

The JNC will be held at the unclassified For Official Use Only (FOUO) level June 7-9 at the Wyndham Resort, 8001 International Drive, Orlando, FL. All attendees for the FOUO sessions require approved visit requests. A separate classified track will be held on June 10 at Shades of Green, Walt Disney Resort, Orlando, FL. Foreign national attendees must submit a visit request to the Joint Navigation Warfare Center thru their embassy’s channels. Foreign national visit requests must be received by May 3, 2010.

Additional information and updates regarding the conference may be found at the website address: www.jointnavigation.org.

Conference Tutorials (June 7)

  • Fundamental Reference Systems, Dr. Dennis McCarthy, NGA
  • Inertial MEMS for Navigation & Guideance, T. Roszhart, Penn State
  • Navigation Software, Marvin May, Penn State
  • GPS 101, Dr. John Raquet, Air Force Institute of Technology
  • Alternative Navigation, Lt. Col. Michael Veth, Air Force Institute of Technology
  • Urban Indoor Navigation, Dr. R. James Duckworth, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Precise Time & Frequency Applications, Joe White, U.S. Naval Research Lab

Advance Registration and Hotel Information
Register Online! Go to www.jointnavigation.org and follow the links to guide you through the registration process (available Spring 2010). Full Registration includes all technical sessions, a CD-ROM of the FOUO presentations, access to the exhibit hall, conference refreshments and events. Individual registration benefits are non-transferable.

Full Registration, received and paid by May 3, $680; after May 3, $770.
Single-Day Registration, $340 (sessions only, does not include proceedings).

A discounted rate for active duty operational forces is also available. Please contact the ION National Office for eligibility requirements: 703-366-2723, email: membership@ion.org.

Hotel Reservations: To make your government rate hotel reservations at the Wyndham Orlando Resort, phone: 800-421-8001, by May 3 and identify yourself a Joint Navigation Conference participant. Note that the Wyndham Hotel is currently in the process of making some upgrades and repairs to their sleeping rooms. Those of you who stayed at the Wyndham in 2009 can expect an overall better experience in 2010.

Exhibit Information and Sponsorship Opportunities
More than 25 companies showcased their products and services at JNC 2009. For exhibit or sponsorship information, contact Lisa Beaty, ION National Office, 8551 Rixlew Lane, Suite 360, Manassas, VA 20109. Phone: +1-703-366-2723, Fax: +1-703-366-2724, e-mail: lbeaty@ion.org, or visit us at www.jointnavigation.org.