# Presentation: 295211

## Chairman’s Report

***Chairman’s Report***

**43****rd**** CGSIC Meeting**
**Washington, DC**
**March 10, 2004**
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**Michael E. Shaw**
**U.S. Department of Transportation**

**Notes:**
Session Chair:

Bart Blue is the Coast Guard Liaison to the OST Radionavigation Policy Office.
He has been managing this DOT project for the last year.
Bart is the Point of Contact for inquiries about the report.

## Overview

**Welcome**
**Meeting Agenda/Organization**
**Issue Oriented Panel – Benefits of L2C**
**Additional suggestions**
**Organizational changes**
**Major activities since Sep 03 CGSIC**
**Foundation for briefings the next 2 days**

## Organizational Changes

**DOT ****Senior Leadership**
**Mr. Tyler Duvall – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy **
**DOT ****Office of Navigation and Spectrum Policy**
**Mr. Greg Wheeler – Spectrum Policy**
**DoD ****Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration**
**Hon. Francis Harvey replaces Hon. John Stenbit**
**Mr. Ron Jost replaces Mr. Owen Wormser**

## Major Activities

**Systems Status/Update**
**Current GPS System Performance**
**Civil Monitoring:  Operational Control Segment MMSRE Contract**
**GPS Modernization**
**First IIR-M launch in 2005**
**First IIF launch in 2006**
**GPS III – study contracts awarded in January 04**
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**GPS Augmentations**
**WAAS commissioned**
**NDGPS coverage increasing **
**NDGPS Executive Steering Council revitalized**
**Chaired by DOT Asst Sec for Transportation Policy**

##          Major Activities (cont’d)

**Radionavigation Capabilities Assessment**** Task Force**
**Report signed/released by DOT Under Secretary for Policy on January 5, 2004**
**Key input to 2003 Federal Radionavigation Plan**
**Loran awaiting report end of this month**
**Decision on future later this year**
**Copies available at:**
**         ****http://****www.navcen.uscg.gov**

## Major Activities (cont’d)

**2003 Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP)**
**In final DOT and DoD POS/NAV coordination**
**GPS National Policy Review**
**Ongoing; all agencies involved**
**Goal:  Complete by end of 2004**
**Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB)**** **
**SSG meetings in Dec 03 and Jan 04**
**Allocation of 2004 GPS Stewardship Funds**

##          Major Activities (cont’d)

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**Spectrum Management**
**Spectrum management challenges**
**Presidential Spectrum Policy Initiative**
**Spectrum Management Reform**
**GPS – International Activities**
**US-EU Technical Working Group (TWG) – Jan 04**** **
**GPS/Galileo compatibility and interoperability**
**US-EU GPS-Galileo Plenary Consultations **
**Jan 29-30 and Feb 24-25, 04**
**Nearing completion of US/European agreement on GPS      and Galileo cooperation**
**European CGSIC – Mar 23-26, 04 in Munich, Germany**

## The Way Ahead

**New civil and military GPS**** signals available starting **
**    ****next year**** **
**Further enhancements continuing through GPS III **
**Fielding of GPS augmentations continuing**
**Publish ****2003 Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP)**
**Complete US-EC ****GPS-Galileo**** Agreement **
**Complete update of ****GPS National Policy****  **
**Presidential Spectrum Management**** Initiative**
**Completion of ****Loran-C**** study/decision on future**
**Initiate ****NDGPS Executive Steering Council**

## Contact List

**   *****Office of Navigation and Spectrum Policy***
***   ******Department of Transportation***
***   ******Room 10223, Nassif Building***
***   ******400 Seventh Street, S.W.***
***   ******Washington D.C. 20590-0001***
**Michael Shaw           (202) 366-0353**
**Jim Miller                  (202) 366-5918**
**John Augustine       (202) 366-4355**
**Greg Wheeler           (202) 366-4894**
**CDR Pete Keane      (202) 366-0362**
**Steve Bayless          (202) 366-9641**
**Hank Skalski            (719) 554-2570**
**Tom Nagle                (310) 363-2974**

## Chairman’s Report

***Chairman’s Report***

**43****rd**** CGSIC Meeting**
**Washington, DC**
**March 10, 2004**
- 
- 
**Michael E. Shaw**
**U.S. Department of Transportation**

**Notes:**
Session Chair:

Bart Blue is the Coast Guard Liaison to the OST Radionavigation Policy Office.
He has been managing this DOT project for the last year.
Bart is the Point of Contact for inquiries about the report.