[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 120 (Thursday, June 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33237-33238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15589]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Air Force


GPS L2/L5 Public Forum--Information on the New Global Positioning 
System (GPS) L2 and L5 Civil Signals

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, DoD.

ACTION: Notice, announcement of opportunity to attend.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a Global Positioning System (GPS) L2/L5 
CivilSignal GPS L2/L5 Public Forum on June 29, 2001 in Washington, DC. 
The Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the GPS Joint 
Program Office (JPO), will provide information on the new civil signals 
being planned for the GPS L2 frequency (1227.60 MHz) and the new GPS L5 
(1176.45 MHz) frequency. The information presented will be important to 
those in the government and industry involved in the development, 
production, support or use of satellite navigation products and 
services for the civil and military users. No new GPS JPO procurements 
are being announced or are anticipated in the near term for this work.
    The agenda will be divided into a morning session (9 a.m. to 11:30 
a.m.) for the GPS Program overview and L2

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and L5 overview presentations, and an afternoon session (1 p.m. to 4 
p.m.) for technical presentations on both new signals. The morning 
agenda includes: Overview of GPS Modernization Program; the New L2 
Civil Signal; the New L5 Civil Signal and the GPS JPO Interface Control 
Document (ICD) Review and Approval Process. The afternoon agenda 
includes: Technical Description of the Planned L2 Design; Laboratory 
Implementation of the New L2 Civil Signal; Technical Description of the 
Planned L5 Signal Design. Copies of the April 16, 2001 ``NAVSTAR GPS 
Space Segment/User Segment L5 Interfaces (ICD-GPS-705),'' the May 31, 
2001 ``Pre-Proposed Interface Revision Notice to ICD-GPS-200C for L2 
Civil (L2C) Signal (PPIRN-200C-007)'' and the briefing charts to the 
May 2, 2001 ``GPS L2 and L5 Civil Signal Industry Day'' presentations 
are now available on the GPS JPO public website https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/2000_public/2100_html/documents.html. 
    This event will be held in the FAA Auditorium, 800 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591. The Industry Day conference is 
unclassified and formal visit requests are not necessary, but for 
security purposes, the GPS JPO must provide a list of all attendees to 
the FAA not later than June 22, 2001. Therefore, attendees should 
provide attendance notification to Veronique Benjamins (SAIC), phone 
(310) 363-6515, fax (310) 363-1581 by June 20, 2001. To expedite check-
in security procedures, all attendees should provide e-mail 
notification to Veronique.Benjamins @LOSANGELES.AF.MIL. Please include 
the words, ``29 June 2001 GPS L2/L5 Civil Signal Public Forum 
Attendee'' in the subject line of your e-mail. The FAA Auditorium 
allows seating for 175 attendees and seating will be on a first come 
basis. The Government will not pay for any costs associated with 
attending this briefing or for any information. Picture identification 
will be required for admittance.

ADDRESSES: JPO Point of Contact: SMC/CZC, 2420 Vela Way, Suite 1467, El 
Segundo, CA 90245-4659, ATTN: Lieutenant Commander Richard Fontana, 
USCG.

DATES: If you intend to participate in these meetings, please submit 
your e-mail notification not later than June 21, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Veronique Benjamins, (310) 363-
6515, or Lieutenant Commander Richard Fontana, USCG, (310) 363-1703, 
GPS Deputy Program Manager, Department of Transportation.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Global Positioning System employs a constellation of 24 
satellites and associated ground stations to provide continuously 
transmitted world-wide positioning, navigation, and timing signals for 
use with appropriately configured GPS user equipment. The current 
generation GPS space vehicles transmit signals at the L1 and L2 
frequencies. In the future, new civil signals will be transmitted on 
the L2 and L5 frequencies. The international civilian and military 
communities employ the dual use Global Positioning System.

Janet A. Long,
Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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