National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board

Fourth Meeting
October 16-17, 2008
Gallery II -- Second Floor
Hilton Arlington
950 North Stafford Street
Arlington, Virginia 22203
(Ballston-MU Metro -- Orange Line)
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Agenda
| Thursday, October 16 | ||
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| 9:00 - 9:05 | BOARD CONVENES Call to Order & Welcome |
Ms. Diane Rausch, NASA PNT Board Executive Director |
| 9:05 - 9:15 | Introductions, Announcements, & Agenda What we want to accomplish -- Preparing for Report to PNT EXCOM on November 5 |
Dr. James Schlesinger, Chair Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | U.S. Update on GPS, PNT Policy, & PNT EXCOM PNT EXCOM Expectations, Transition Planning View PowerPoint (834 KB) |
Mr. Michael Shaw, Director - National Coordination Office for Space-Based PNT |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | U.S. International Initiatives Update on Intl. Committee on GNSS, Galileo, GLONASS, & Compass View PowerPoint (436 KB) |
Mr. David Turner, Deputy Director Space and Advanced Technology U.S. State Department |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | International Member Regional Updates (at member's discretion)
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | BREAK | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | GPS in the National Airspace System WAAS, LAAS, and ADS-B View PDF (6 MB) |
Mr. Leo Eldridge, SatNav Program Manager, Federal Aviation Administration |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | GPS Space Service Volume Increasing Utility of GPS for Space Users View PowerPoint (953 KB) |
Dr. Michael Moreau, Flight Dynamics Analysis Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | GPS and Homeland Security [CANCELED] Interference Detection & Mitigation - Implementation Strategy - Central Data Repository And Interference Analysis |
Mr. John Merrill,Manager DHS Geospatial Management Office |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Morning Session Discussion & Announcements | All |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Pseudolites Augmenting GPS in Regions of Reduced Geometric Availability View PDF (92 KB) |
Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair Stanford University |
| 1:30 - 1:50 | Distress Alerting Satellite System Advantages of a MEOSAR System View PowerPoint (3 MB) |
Mr. Chris O'Connors, NOAA SARSAT Program Manager |
| 1:50 - 2:30 | Civil Input to GPS III IFOR Update - SLR & DASS Examples View PowerPoint (504 KB) |
Mr. Hank Skalski, Civil Liaison, AF Space Command Col. David Buckman, AF Space Command |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | BREAK | |
| 2:45 - 3:30 | "Big 5" and Civilian Service Panel Findings View PowerPoint (2 MB) |
Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair Stanford University |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Future GPS & Free Services PNT Policy "Lessons Learned" View PowerPoint (441 KB) |
Dr. Scott Pace, Director Space Policy Institute, GWU |
| 4:00 - 4:45 | Getting to 30+ satellites Panel Discussion -- Next Steps | All |
| 4:45 - 5:00 | Afternoon "Wrap-Up" Discussion & Announcements | |
| 5:00 | ADJOURNMENT | |
| Friday, October 17 | ||
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| 9:00 - 9:05 | BOARD CONVENES Call to Order -- Good Morning |
Ms. Diane Rausch, NASA PNT Board Executive Director |
| 9:05 - 10:15 | Board Recommendations 2007-08 Messages for the Transition Team
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Dr. James Schlesinger, Chair Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Transitioning & Strengthening the PNT Advisory Board
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Panel Leads/All |
| 11:30 - 1:00 | WORKING LUNCH PNT Advisory Board "Wrap-Up" Discussions |
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| 1:00 | ADJOURNMENT | |
Dates and times shown above are as originally scheduled and do not reflect actual presentation times.
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