# Presentation: 593250

## PNT International Challenges and Opportunities

**PNT Advisory Board **
***Washington, D.C.  ***
**March 29,  2007**

**Ralph Braibanti**
**Director, Space and Advanced Technology**
**U.S. Department of State**

## Overview

- Global Trends
- US Scene
- International Cooperation
- Europe (GPS-Galileo)
- Japan, Russia, India, others
- International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG)
- Challenges
- Summary

## Global Trends

- Continued rapid expansion of GNSS use around the world
- Accelerated development of new civil applications for GNSS
- New systems being built or planned; number of space-based signal providers will grow from two (United States and Russia) at beginning of this decade to six or more by 2020

## US Scene

- GPS has become a global utility
- Consistent, predictable, dependable performance
- Commitment to modernization
- Public domain documentation and policy continuity are designed to encourage use and innovative applications around the world
- United States seeks to maintains a leadership position as a global PNT “system of systems” materializes

## International Cooperation

- Past decade has been one of intensive diplomacy on GNSS issues
- 1996 - First State Department-led GPS team visits Tokyo
- 1997 – Bid at WRC to share GNSS frequency band with other services narrowly averted
- 1997 – First US-EU discussions on satellite navigation
- 1998 to present – GNSS consultations with more than two dozen countries
- Positive results of these efforts are beginning to come into view
- New satellite constellations and regional augmentation systems, while independently owned and operated, are being designed to be compatible and interoperable
- Coordination mechanisms are being created to promote interoperability, promote GNSS use,  and ensure a level playing field in the global marketplace

## GPS-Galileo Cooperation

- In 2004, United States and European Community signed landmark agreement on GPS-Galileo cooperation
- Recognizes importance of compatibility/interoperability for all parties
- Agreed to spectrally separate signals for military and civilian services
- Agreed to implement a common, open, civil signal on both Galileo and GPS III
- Working groups establishedto continue dialogue:
- Compatibility & Interoperability
- Trade & Civil Applications
- Next-Generation GNSS
- Security Issues
- Handout on “GPS and Galileo...
-       Progress Through Partnership”
-       developed jointly by US and EC

- June 26, 2004, press conference at U.S.-EU Summit in Ireland (U.S. Sec. of State Colin Powell, Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen, EU Vice-President Loyola De Palacio)

## US-Japan Cooperation

- Japan’s status as a world leader in GPS applications and user equipment makes it an important partner
- Policy consultations and technical meetings on GPS cooperation have been held since 1996 between the United States and Japan
- Discussion topics include Japan’s regional augmentation system (MSAS) and interoperability between GPS and Japan’s planned Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS)

## GPS-GLONASS Cooperation

- Discussions on US-Russia agreement on satellite navigation cooperation have been underway since late 2005
- Next meeting is planned for spring 2007
- Working groups are pursuing GPS-GLONASS interoperability
- Enhanced PNT availability through common open service civil signals
- Cooperative search and rescue capabilities

## US-India Cooperation

- Policy and technical consultations on GPS cooperation have been held since 2005 between the US and India
- One aim is to ensure interoperability between GPS augmentation system WAAS and India’s planned GAGAN augmentation system based on GPS
- Another important topic is ionospheric distortion and solutions
- US-India Joint Statement on GNSS Cooperation issued February 2007 in Washington

## International Committee on GNSS (ICG)

- Emerged from 3rd UNISPACE Conference held in 1999
- Promote GNSS use, particularly in developing countries
- Encourage compatibility and interoperability among global and regional systems
- Unique mix of GNSS providers (US, EU, Russia, Japan, China, India) and international user groups
- Will serve as focal point for international information exchange
- First meeting held in Vienna in November 2006
- Agreed on terms of reference, work plan, and concept of “GNSS Providers Forum” to address common issues

## Challenges and Opportunities

- Continue technical work to promote compatibility and interoperability
- Broaden consultations on PNT issues to include more countries
- Strengthen GPS-Galileo cooperation
- Increase public outreach
- Manage potential trade issues
- Dialogue with China on its planned Beidou/COMPASS system ?

## Summary

- As new space-based GNSS are emerging globally, interoperability is the key to “success for all”
- GPS modernization is essential to international success
- ICG will address GNSS providers and users’ concerns; active participation in the ICG Work Plan implementation will be the key to addressing common issues
- PNT challenges and opportunities of the decade ahead call for active diplomatic engagement with other nations

## Contact Information

- Ralph Braibanti
- Director
- Space and Advanced Technology
- Department of State
- Washington, D.C.
- Ph: (202) 663-2390
- Fax: (202) 663-2402
- BraibantiRL@state.gov
- Presentation and other GPS information available:
**www.PNT.gov**