GPS System Integration Design & Test - Perspectives

6.27.08—The JLOC system will automatically take in reports of higher than normal signal levels in the GPS band and lower than normal signal/noise ratio, indicating the presence of a GPS threat. JLOC uses such reports to determine in aggregate the regions where interference is occurring. The next level is to geolocate the source of the interference extremely precisely.
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MPs warned of GPS jamming risks

6.18.08—The government is being urged to invest in a radio system developed during the Second World War, as a back-up to GPS satellite navigation.
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Air Force "Above All" ASAT commercial

URSA Navigation Solutions and Nautel Annouce Global Distribution and Integration Alliance

5.15.08—Concerned about GNSS vulnerabilities? Considering a land-based alternative or backup to GNSS? Replacing or upgrading your existing Loran system? Moving to eLoran? Need deployable or tactical Loran? Consider a 21st century solution to your Position, Navigation, and Timing requirements.
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Nautel Announces ON-AIR Demonstration of Next Generation Enhanced LORAN Design

5.15.08—Innovative enhanced Loran (eLoran) transmitter design offers breakthrough space efficiency, power consumption, reliability, affordability and modulation flexibility to support future eLoran system development.
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eLoran - Securing Positioning, Navigation and Timing for Europe’s Future

4.29.08—Prepared by the European eLoran Forum, April 2008
This document has been produced by the European eLoran Forum for policy-makers, service providers and users. It sets out the strategic importance of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems that underpin our European critical infrastructure and emphasises the role of Enhanced Loran (eLoran) as a way of making our European PNT foundations robust and resilient.
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GPS routed bus under bridge, company says

4.18.08—The driver of the bus carrying the Garfield High School girls softball team that hit a brick and concrete footbridge was using a GPS navigation system that routed the tall bus under the 9-foot bridge, the charter company's president said Thursday.
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Loran to become eLoran

4.14.08—The reliable, accurate and (relatively) cheap loran radio-navigation system got a new lease on life in February when the Department of Homeland Security announced support for a new flavor of loran called “eLoran” (enhanced loran). This improved version of loran can provide navigators with eight- to 20-meter accuracy and make it a great partner to GPS.
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The Institute of Navigation Newsletter- FY09 U.S. Budget Proposal Adopts eLORAN

Fall/Winter 2007/2008—The Bush administration appears to have finally made a long-delayed decision to complete implementation of an enhanced LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) system to serve, in part, as a back-up to GPS.
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General Lighthouse Authorities applaud US eLoran decision

02.22.08—The General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland (GLAs) today applaud the US decision to implement Enhanced Loran (eLoran) in the US as a complement to the Global Positioning System (GPS), particularly in the event of an outage or disruption in service.
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Homeland Security plans to modernize Coast Guard
navigation system

02.12.08—Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will begin implementing an independent national positioning, navigation and timing system that complements the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the event of an outage or disruption in service.
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Statement from DHS Secretary Laura Keekkner on the Adoption of National Backup System to GPS

02.07.08—Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will begin implementing an independent national positioning, navigation and timing system that complements the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the event of an outage or disruption in service.
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President’s 2009 Budget Proposal Directs
DHS to Implement eLORAN

02.06.08—The Bush administration appears to have finally made a long-delayed decision to complete implementation of an enhanced LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) system to serve, in part, as a back-up to GPS.
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FY '09 Budget includes eLORAN

02.05.08—President Bush forwarded to Congress the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2009 and related documents. Among other things, the Budget documents
note enhanced LORAN (eLORAN) has been identified as the primary candidate as the national backup system for position, navigation, and timing.
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Driver cited in Bedford train-car crash caused by GPS mishap

01.03.08—A 32-year-old Californian whose rental
car got smashed by a Metro-North train last night was
issued a minor summons for causing the fiery crash that
stranded railroad commuters for hours.
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Land-Based Backup to GPS Wins Reprieve in Spending Bill

12.18.07—A terrestrial backup for the satellite-based Global Positioning System endorsed by a wide range of users from the aviation, marine transportation and telecommunications industries gained a new lease on life in the fiscal 2008 omnibus spending bill passed by the House Monday.
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Maine Firm Looks Backward to Solve
GPS Limitations

Last week, Vermont hunter Steven Wright survived nearly three snow-filled days lost in Northern Maine. The main reason, he said, was his faulty global positioning system (GPS).

"It told me I was a mile and a half from the truck," he told local reporters. "It took me farther and farther away from the truck, actually."

Less than 90 miles away, former Coast Guard officer Zachariah Conover and his team at Standish, Maine-based CrossRate Technology LLC were -- coincidentally -- busy working on technology to prevent such mishaps.
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Land-Based Backup to GPS Wins Reprieve in Spending Bill

12.18.07—A terrestrial backup for the satellite-based Global Positioning System endorsed by a wide range of users from the aviation, marine transportation and telecommunications industries gained a new lease on life in the fiscal 2008 omnibus spending bill passed by the House Monday.
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China Poses Threat to GPS, Backup System
at the Ready

5.31.07—China now has the capability to jam the Global Positioning System, widely used by both the military to, say, guide precision weapons and by civilians to, for example, provide timing for telecom networks, according to the annual Defense Department report on “Military Power of the People’s Republic of China” submitted to Congress May 25...
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Loran Gets Reprieve; Solar Flares Interrupt GPS

4.10.07—Although the decision has not yet been officially announced, AIN has learned the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security have agreed that Loran should continue operating for the foreseeable future...
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Solar Bursts May Threaten GPS, U.S. Agency Says

4.1.07—The Global Positioning System, increasingly vital technology for activities including navigating cars and airplanes, bank financial transfers and more may be threatened...
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Loran Gets a Witness

3.1.07—The Radio Technical Commission for maritime Services (RTCMS) has joined more than 900 other organizations and individuals in responding to the request for comments on Loran ...
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Federal Request for Comment on Loran

2.12.07—2007 is going to be an exciting year for Loran. We ended 2007 with the Independent Assessment Team, led by Dr. Parkinson, making the unanimous recommendation to operate eLoran as the long term back up to GPS...
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European and U.S. Officials Mixed on
Future of Loran

2.1.07—Few navigation systems have experienced the ups and downs of loran as they sought recognition. In December, a UK agency said the system is an essential back-up to GPS...
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China's Anti-Satellite Test Impacts Comments on Loran Need

1.23.07—China's test last week of an anti-satellite missile reinforced the need to continue operation of the ground-based long-range radio navigation (Lorna) electronic navigation system as backup to the space-based Global Positioning System...
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U. K. Launches Procurement for GPS Backup

12.19.06—A United Kingdom-based agency plans to buy a navigation system to serve as a backup for satellite based technology such as the Global Positioning System, putting pressure on the United States to follow suit according to navigation industry consultants and vendors ...
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US Warns of Threat to Satellites

12.13.06— WASHINGTON- The Bush Administration warned Wednesday about threats by terrorist groups and other nations against U.S. commercial and military satellites, and discounted the need for a treaty aimed at preventing an arms race in space...
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Incubating a Solution in South Portland

10.27.06— Zach Conover, Chief Executive Officer of
CrossRate Technologies, believes that in three years his
small start-up tech company with three full time employees
will transform into a $30 million dollar business
manufacturing a ground-breaking new technology...
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Navigation Idea Finds Its Way Home

8.5.05— It took the launch of a navigation-technology
company to guide Zachariah Conover back home
to Maine...   Read more

CrossRate Technology, LLC Receives a Maine Technology Institute Development Award to Fund Product Development

6.14.05— CrossRate Technology, LLC has received a
Maine Technology Institute (MTI) Development Award to
fund development of an integrated GPS/Loran receiver...   
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CrossRate Technology, LLC Receives a Maine Technology Institute Seed Grant to Fund Market Research

1.26.05— CrossRate Technology, LLC has received a
Maine Technology Institute (MTI) Seed Grant to fund market research to determine the potential market for an integrated GPS/Loran receiver...   Read more

CrossRate Technology, LLC Moves into the
Maine Center for Enterprise Development

12.6.04— CrossRate Technology, LLC has relocated operations in the Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED)...   Read more

Integrated Receiver Solutions Changes Name
to CrossRate Technology, LLC and Forms as
a State of Maine LLC

7.28.04— Integrated Receiver Solutions has formed as a State of Maine Limited Liability Company under the name CrossRate Technology, LLC...   Read more

Integrated Receiver Solutions Wins Third Place
in Drexel University's Business Plan Competition

5.21.04— Integrated Receiver Solutions placed third in Drexel University’s Business Plan Competition...   Read more