In a recent GPS World article, Jesse Khalil interviews Renee Gregory, NextNav’s Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, to delve into the company’s vision for a terrestrial complement and backup to GPS. The discussion centers on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) aimed at promoting the development of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technologies and solutions.

A year after NextNav shared a new vision for the Lower 900 MHz band, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collected additional comments seeking to bolster positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) resilience by exploring terrestrial and space-based technologies, including NextNav’s, that could complement and back up GPS. The FCC’s PNT Notice of Inquiry (NOI) is a level set on PNT issues, and seeks to engage stakeholders across government and industry to advance a ‘whole-of-government approach’ to building resiliency to safeguard America’s critical infrastructure, national security and public safety.

Read the full article on GPSWorld.com