March 14 th PNT Hill Day Report

1. March 14th PNT Hill Day Report David Logsdon Co-Chair PNT Advisory Board Strategic Engagement Panel

2. Observations • Two panels • USG • Private Industry • Capacity Crowd • Hill staffers from Committees of Jurisdiction in attendance

3. Areas of PNT Applications CONSTRUCTION

4. Trimble Overview • Survey • Machine Control • Construction Instruments Engineering & Construction • Agriculture • Mapping & GIS Field Solutions • Fleet Tracking • Mobile Worker Productivity Mobile Solutions • Embedded GPS Products • Timing • Inertial Systems Advanced Devices

5. GPS efficiency for Construction: rework “We’re completing projects sooner, and we’ve literally cut our rework by 70% by using the GPS system.” -Joey Keiffer, General superintendent, Malphrus Construction Company Bechtel operation at Oak Creek power plant

6. Areas of PNT Applications AGRICULTURE

7. USDA supports GPS Modernization and the implementation of additional civil signals. • USDA supports the advancement of GPS augmentations, especially protecting and enhancing the Nationwide Differential GPS (NDGPS).

8. Department of Agriculture Applications 10,000+ USDA personnel on the landscape every day, using GPS to provide program assistance, service, and technical support to USDA customers and partners • Safety-of-Life operations –Fire, Snow Survey • Administration of the Farm Bill • Conservation Planning and Application • Natural and Cultural Resource Data Collection, • Inventorying and Monitoring • Landscape Characterization & Engineering Applications • Soil Mapping

9. Deere’s use of GPS • Deere needed a way to accurately position agricultural equipment on a global basis • First introduce in mid 1990’s for yield monitoring • StarFire is an absolute positioning system that does not require base stations • 50,000 dual frequency receivers shipped

10. Applications • Precision Farming • Water Management • Automatic Steering • Control Traffic

11. Areas of PNT Applications AUTOMOTIVE

12. OnStar – 5+ million General Motors Standard in 2008 nearly all vehicles Lexus Lexus Link ATX – nearly 1 million Mercedes - Teleaid BMW - Assist Telematics Availability – 6 Million Vehicles

13. Making a Distinctive Difference Monthly, telematics forward to PSAPs approximately: • 3,000 automatic airbag/crash notifications; and • 17,000 emergency and Good Samaritan calls. As well as • 33,000 requests for roadside assistance; • 66,000 door unlocks; • 700 stolen vehicle location requests; • Over 600,000 requests for routing; And among non-GPS based services • 30,000 remote diagnostics.

14. Interference Detection and Mitigation

15. Interference Case Study • Date: 22 January 2007 • Location: San Diego harbor south to Mexican border and up to 10 miles inland. • Duration: 1200-1600 PST • Cause: Unintentional Interference

16. UNCLASSIFIED Interference Case Study UNCLASSIFIED

17. Interference Case Study General AviationPilot Report GPS Malfunction AIS Display Console Anomaly Potential for First Responder Impacts Medical Services Paging Provider Network Inoperative 1.5 Hours – 20 sites DGPS Site Inoperative 2 Hours Cell Provider Network 150 sites detected error 2 sites inoperative

18. IDM Plan Goals • Coordinate domestic capabilities to identify, analyze, locate, attribute, and mitigate sources of interference to the GPS and its augmentations • Collect, analyze, store, and disseminate interference reports from all sources to enable appropriate investigation, notification and enforcement action • Develop and maintain capabilities, procedures and techniques, and routinely exercise civil contingency responses to ensure continuity of operations in the event that access to the GPS is disrupted or denied.

19. IDM Implementation Actions • August 2007 – The President approved the National PNT IDM Plan • January 2008 – DHS signed IDM Plan Implementation Strategy into force • DHS expected to issue publicly releasable fact sheet and summary of IDM Plan

20. Implementation Actions • February 7, 2008 – DHS announced adoption of eLoran as a national backup to the GPS to mitigate any safety, security, or economic effects of a GPS outage or disruption • President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request: • Migrate administration of LORAN-C from USCG to DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), includes transfer of budget authority for funding and personnel • Prepare for conversion of Loran-C operations to eLoran • NPPD to oversee development of eLoran to provide national backup capabilities for positioning, navigation, and timing. • Coast Guard will continue operation of the system in 2009 on a reimbursable basis

21. Our Aging Constellation

22. GPS Constellation StatusSatellite Age as of March 2008 16 14 12 10 Years 8 6 BLOCK IIA BLOCK IIR BLOCK IIR-M 4 2 Satellite 23 24 25 26 27 53 52 58 57 55 39 35 34 36 33 40 30 38 43 46 37 61 32 47 59 60 51 44 41 54 56 45

23. Observations and Recommendations • For over a decade, both civil and commercial users have benefitted immensely from GPS • For USG users, much greater efficiency has been one of the outcomes • For the commercial industry, innovation has driven ROI for several industry sectors

24. Observations and Recommendations • For USG users, modernization is key • For commercial users, a robust signal provided with no user fees is key • No user fees= ability to spend money on innovation • Robust, consistent signal (and ICD)=ability to spend money on innovation

25. Observations and Recommendations • Many champions that will speak out on behalf of GPS • Recommend having panelists at key industry sector conferences and forums • Recommend having forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce focusing on PNT applications as they pertain to Energy and Climate