A -- NAVIGATION WARFARE CONFERENCE The Association of Old Crows (AOC) will present its first Navigation Warfare Conference, September 24-25, 1997, at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. William P. Delaney, Director's Office Fellow, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, will chair the conference. His current responsibilities include long-range planning and support to DoD panels and studies. He has led or participated in a number of key DoD studies on GPS. The keynote address will be given by Mr. Michael Shaw, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Space). The conference will be at the SECRET. U.S. ONLY classification level. Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation is increasingly becoming the backbone of military (and civilian) navigation. It is permeating all military systems from large sophisticated aircraft and high-end weapons to less costly weapons and the foot soldier. The accuracy, portability, and low cost make it an ideal navigation system. However, it does have vulnerabilities to electronic countermeasures. The conference will provide a technical forum on navigation warfare and the GPS and will explore GPS strengths and vulnerabilities via a broad range of briefings by program leaders and technical experts in GPS techniques, hardware, and usage. Topics to be discussed include: an overview of the GPS; applications of GPS in civilian and military systems; GLONASS, the equivalent Russian GPS system; and the electronic warfare vulnerability of the GPS. Papers will also cover antijam mechanisms to increase GPS resistance to electronic attack and alternate schemes of navigation that complement the GPS. An expert panel will discuss the long-range evolution of GPS and potential areas of conflict between military users of the GPS and the rapidly growing civilian GPS community. The panel will respond to audience questions. Clearly, this conference is a "must attend" for those managers, task leaders, customers, scientists, and engineers engaged in navigation warfare and GPS activities, or who wish to become aware of this important functional area. For additional information, please contact the AOC Conference and Education Department at (888) OLD-CROW or (703) 549-1600.

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