CrossRate navigates $750K funding
7.25.08—Commercial navigation technology developer CrossRate Technology LLC has brought in $750,000 in funding from new and existing angel investors.
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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
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