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National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board
Agenda

Fourth Meeting
October 16-17, 2008

Gallery II -- Second Floor
Hilton Arlington
950 North Stafford Street
Arlington, Virginia 22203
(Ballston-MU Metro -- Orange Line)

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Thursday, October 16
9:00 - 9:05	BOARD CONVENES Call to Order & Welcome	Ms. Diane Rausch, NASA PNT Board Executive Director
9:05 - 9:15	Introductions, Announcements, & Agenda What we want to accomplish -- Preparing for Report to PNT EXCOM on November 5	Dr. James Schlesinger, Chair Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair
9:15 - 9:45	U.S. Update on GPS, PNT Policy, & PNT EXCOM PNT EXCOM Expectations, Transition Planning	Mr. Michael Shaw, Director - National Coordination Office for Space-Based PNT
9:45 - 10:15	U.S. International Initiatives Update on Intl. Committee on GNSS, Galileo, GLONASS, & Compass	Mr. David Turner, Deputy Director Space and Advanced Technology U.S. State Department
10:15 - 10:30	International Member Regional Updates (at member's discretion) Gerhard Beutler (CH), International Association of Geodesy Arve Dimmen (NO), Norwegian Coastal Administration Hiroshi Nishiguchi (JP), Japan GPS Council Richard Smith (UK), International Association of Institutes of Navigation
10:30 - 10:45	BREAK
10:45 - 11:10	GPS in the National Airspace System WAAS, LAAS, and ADS-B	Mr. Leo Eldridge, SatNav Program Manager, Federal Aviation Administration
11:10 - 11:30	GPS Space Service Volume Increasing Utility of GPS for Space Users	Dr. Michael Moreau, Flight Dynamics Analysis Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
11:30 - 11:50	GPS and Homeland Security [CANCELED] Interference Detection & Mitigation - Implementation Strategy - Central Data Repository And Interference Analysis	Mr. John Merrill,Manager DHS Geospatial Management Office
11:50 - 12:00	Morning Session Discussion & Announcements	All
12:00 - 1:00	LUNCH
1:00 - 1:30	Pseudolites Augmenting GPS in Regions of Reduced Geometric Availability	Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair Stanford University
1:30 - 1:50	Distress Alerting Satellite System Advantages of a MEOSAR System	Mr. Chris O'Connors, NOAA SARSAT Program Manager
1:50 - 2:30	Civil Input to GPS III IFOR Update - SLR & DASS Examples	Mr. Hank Skalski, Civil Liaison, AF Space Command Col. David Buckman, AF Space Command
2:30 - 2:45	BREAK
2:45 - 3:30	"Big 5" and Civilian Service Panel Findings	Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair Stanford University
3:30 - 4:00	Future GPS & Free Services PNT Policy "Lessons Learned"	Dr. Scott Pace, Director Space Policy Institute, GWU
4:00 - 4:45	Getting to 30+ satellites Panel Discussion -- Next Steps	All
4:45 - 5:00	Afternoon "Wrap-Up" Discussion & Announcements
5:00	ADJOURNMENT
Friday, October 17
9:00 - 9:05	BOARD CONVENES Call to Order -- Good Morning	Ms. Diane Rausch, NASA PNT Board Executive Director
9:05 - 10:15	Board Recommendations 2007-08 Messages for the Transition Team Review PNT Board Report Summary & prepare for PNT EXCOM Briefing Address critical Panel issues and positions that should be included in the Administration transition plan	Dr. James Schlesinger, Chair Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Vice-Chair
10:15 - 10:30	BREAK
10:30 - 11:30	Transitioning & Strengthening the PNT Advisory Board Discuss changes that could be made to the PNT Board Panel structure and processes to be more effective Panel Work Assignments - Prep. for 2009-10	Panel Leads/All
11:30 - 1:00	WORKING LUNCH PNT Advisory Board "Wrap-Up" Discussions
1:00	ADJOURNMENT

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