{"id":81474,"date":"2013-02-26T20:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-group-to-advocate-for-gps-industry\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T12:55:37","slug":"new-group-to-advocate-for-gps-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-group-to-advocate-for-gps-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Group to Advocate for GPS Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: GPS, NovAtel, Garmin, Trimble, Topcon Positioning Systems,<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 02\/26\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"192\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/constellation.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>GPS Constellation.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: GPS.gov\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A new group to support the \u201cever-increasing importance of GPS\u201d has formed in Washington, D.C. The <strong>GPS Innovation Alliance<\/strong> incorporates and replaces both the <strong>U.S. GPS Industry Council (USGIC)<\/strong> and the <strong>Coalition to Save Our GPS<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The alliance is expected to be the voice of the U.S. GPS industry and community of users by taking a more aggressive approach inside the nation\u2019s capital. According to its official website, the group\u2019s members come from companies such as <strong>John Deere<\/strong>, <strong>Garmin<\/strong>, <strong>Trimble<\/strong>, <strong>NovAtel <\/strong>and <strong>Topcon Positioning Systems<\/strong> \u2013 all previously members of the USGIC. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Swiek, former executive director of the USGIC, has assumed the same role at the GPS Innovation Alliance. He will work with executive branch departments of the U.S. government, and continue dialogs with governmental, private sector and academic entities in areas critical to GPS and satellite navigation among key players in the world.  <\/p>\n<p>Heather Hennessey, a principal of <strong>Innovative Federal Strategies LLC<\/strong>, has been appointed as the groups\u2019s legislative branch executive director. It is expected that Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel for Trimble, will assume an active role in representing the alliance on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: GPS, NovAtel, Garmin, Trimble, Topcon Positioning Systems, Publication Date: 02\/26\/2013 GPS Constellation. Image credit: GPS.gov A new group to support the \u201cever-increasing importance of GPS\u201d has formed in Washington, D.C. The GPS Innovation Alliance incorporates and replaces both the U.S. GPS Industry Council (USGIC) and the Coalition to Save Our GPS. The alliance is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}