U'S' SpaceBased PNT Policy Federal Radionavigation Plan: Policy and Status Update

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U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy / Federal
Radionavigation PlanPolicy and Status Update

• Presentation to the
• CGSIC
• September 12, 2005
• John E. Augustine
• U.S. Department of Transportation

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Overview

• Background
• U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy
• FRP Status

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GPS Background

• Originally designed as a dual-use system
• Military applications for U.S. and Allied use
• Civilian applications for worldwide use
• Open signal specification available to industry
• and all users, both U.S. and International
• Consistent U.S. National Policy from both
  Executive and Legislative branches
• U.S. Presidential Decision Directive March
  1996
• U.S. Public Law - December 1997
• New Policy Updated December 2004

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Need for Updated Natl GPS Policy

• In the past decade, GPS has grown into global
  utility
• Integral to U.S. economy, transportation safety,
  homeland security, scientific uses, and our
  critical infrastructure
• Essential element of worldwide economic
  infrastructure
• GPS is critical to U.S. national security
• Integrated into virtually every facet of U.S.
  military ops
• Continued growth of GPS-based services and
  applications
• Presents opportunities, risks, and threats to
  U.S. national, homeland, and economic security
• Need to update and improve existing management
  mechanisms for GPS and its augmentations
• Prog planning, resource allocation, sys
  development, etc.

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Overview

• Background
• U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy
• FRP Status

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U.S. PNT Policy Principles

• No direct user fees for all civil PNT services
• Open public signal structure for all civil PNT
  services
• Promotes equal access for user equipment
  manufacture, applications development and
  value-added services
• Facilitates open market driven competition
• Use of GPS time, geodesy, and signal standards
• Protect the current radionavigation spectrum from
  disruption and interference
• Global compatibility and interoperability of
  future PNT systems with GPS
• Recognition of national and international
  security issues and protecting against misuse

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New U.S. Policy

• U.S. Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and
  Timing (PNT) Policy
• Released by the President - December 15, 2004
• Replaced the 1996 U.S. GPS Policy
• Provides updated, comprehensive, and responsive
  guidance
• Higher level management mechanism for all PNT
  issues
• Increased involvement of Executive Offices of the
  President (EOP)

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New Policy Objectives

• Provide space-based civil PNT services free of
  direct user fees on a continuous, worldwide basis
  to
• Civil, commercial, homeland security and
  scientific users
• Provide uninterrupted access to U.S. space-based
  PNT services for U.S./allied natl security
  capabilities
• Through GPS, independent of foreign PNT
• Provide open, free access to information
  necessary to use these civil services
• Improve capabilities to deny hostile use of any
  space-based PNT services
• Without unduly disrupting civil and commercial
  access
• Maintain commitment to discontinue SA

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New Policy Objectives (contd)

• Maintain the GPS as a component of multiple
  sectors of the U.S. Critical Infrastructure
• IAW Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7
• Improve the performance of space-based PNT
• Includes robust resistance to interference for
  homeland security, civil, commercial, and
  scientific users worldwide
• Ensure civil services exceed, or are at least
  equivalent to, those of foreign civil space-based
  PNT services
• Ensure that foreign PNT systems are interoperable
  with GPS
• Or, at a minimum, compatible with GPS

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New Policy DOT Roles

• Lead responsibility for developing civil
  requirements from all U.S. Departments and
  Agencies
• Ensure, in cooperation with DoD and DHS, signal
  performance monitoring of U.S. civil PNT services
• Ensure U.S. PNT public safety services meet or
  exceed international performance standards
• Ensure the earliest operational availability for
  modernized civil signals, in coordination with
  DoD
• In coordination with DHS, develop, acquire and
  maintain backup PNT capabilities, in the event of
  a GPS disruption

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PNT Executive Committee

• Co-chaired by Deputy Secretaries of
  Transportation and Defense
• Advises and coordinates with and among
  Departments and Agencies responsible for
  strategic PNT decision making
• Official Members Deputy Secretaries of DOS, DOC,
  DHS, NASA, Vice Chairman JCS
• Other Departments and Agencies as required
• EOP Observers OSTP, NSC, NEC, HSC, OMB
• FCC Chairman participation as liaison
• Independent Advisory Board
• Chartered as a Federal Advisory Committee

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PNT Executive Committee (cont.)

• Supported by a National PNT Coordination Office
  (NPCO)
• Lead by a full time executive-level Director
• NPCO Director selection process underway
• NPCO staff to be provided by member agencies
• First PNT Executive Committee meeting held on
  February 23, 2005 by Secretary Mineta and Deputy
  Secretary Wolfowitz

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Overview

• Background
• U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy
• FRP Status

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2005 FRP Status

• Document completed formal Principal level
  coordination within DoD, DOT, and DHS
• Interagency coordination with DOC, FCC, and NASA
  
• Submitted for Secretarial signature on September
  9, 2005
• To be signed by Secretaries of DOT, DoD, and DHS
• First time ever signed by three Departments
• USCG transfer to DHS
• Acknowledges the sole authority of these three
  Departments to provide Federal radionavigation
  services

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2005 FRP Status (cont.)

• Includes updated policies, operating plans, and
  RD activities for all federally provided
  radionavigation systems
• Expanded Mitigation Plans for GPS disruption
• FRP responsive to new Space-Based PNT Policy
• Status of Loran decision
• MARAD to complete Maritime Efficiency evaluation
  by end of 2005
• DHS to complete Timing evaluation by end of 2005
• Secretarial decision on Loran expected in 2006

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Summary

• New U.S. Space-Based PNT Policy retains core 1996
  GPS policy principles and expands them
• No direct user fees for civil all PNT services
• Available on a continuous worldwide basis
• Open public signal structure for all civil
  services
• More comprehensive, many different users of PNT
• Improved performance of GPS
• Creates strengthened management structure
• Compatibility interoperability w/ foreign PNT
  systems
• 2005 FRP publication expected in 2005

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Contact Information

• John E. Augustine, Navigation Spectrum Policy
• U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the
  Secretary
• Nassif Bldg., Rm. 10223
• 400 Seventh Street, S.W.
• Washington, D.C. 20590
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail John.Augustine_at_dot.gov
• www.dot.gov