GPS World, December 2017
LEADERSHIP EVENT AWARDS CEREMONY 2017 THE LEADERSHIP AWARDS were presented during a special ceremony and dinner during ION GNSS 2017 in Portland in September The awards recognize significant recent achievement in these fields of positioning navigation and timing SATELLITES SIGNALS SERVICES and PRODUCTS The Leadership Dinner was sponsored by Harris Corporation Rockwell Collins and Spirent Federal Systems Sponsored by Photos Melanie Beus E veryone at this great conference is actively engaged in innovation new approaches new combinations new integrations new methodologies Our sponsors are not only innovators they are active in building those innovations in the field installing the cornerstones of GPS and GNSS technology Harris Corporation has been building the GPS satellite payloads since the beginning of time Rockwell Collins has built so much user equipment historically and currently and Spirent Federal Systems has been enabling the development and testing of much user equipment by many companies in this room Just to give you an idea of who else is seated among you at the tables we have NovAtel Spectracom IFEN Septentrio Satelles Syntony Unicore u blox ComNav RaceLogic Rohde Schwarz ublox Locata GMV Leica Thales Boeing Broadcom Qualcomm Google Apple Intel MITRE and Aerospace Corporation the U S Air Force GPS Directorate the U S State Department the European Space Agency the European GNSS Agency and the European Commission NASA the French and German aerospace agencies the Institute of Navigation and the Royal Institute of Navigation and universities and research institutes almost too many to number This is a great industry to be part of and I feel lucky to be kind of a spectator a commentator in it without the benefit of the scientific upbringing that everybody else in this room has had I still get to participate in the excitement and the developments and for that I am truly grateful Opening remarks by Alan Cameron editor and publisher of GPS World DECEMBER 2017 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 39
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