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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ken Bays, Geodetic Control FIT Chair and Lead Geodetic Surveyor for ODOT, provided the following update on the LightSquared/GPS issue that has arisen recently. Please see below. Thanks Ken!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>cy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cy Smith, Statewide GIS Coordinator</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DAS/EISPD Geospatial Enterprise Office</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>President, Urban/Regional Info Sys Assoc. (URISA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Secretary, Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Past President, Natl. States Geographic Info. Council (NSGIC)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>503-378-6066 <a href="http://gis.oregon.gov">http://gis.oregon.gov</a> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> BAYS Kenneth [mailto:Kenneth.BAYS@odot.state.or.us] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 01, 2011 1:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> SMITH Cy * EISPD GEO; HILL Milton E * EISPD GEO; John Minor; Annette dePaz; Lisa Lee; mark.l.armstrong@noaa.gov; WRIGHT Chris; Cael Neathamer; Dan Hoekstra<br><b>Subject:</b> Update: GPS threats from FCC's waiver for LightSquared<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As I stated in an earlier E-mail to some of you, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee, </span><a href="file:///\\www.pnt.gov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.pnt.gov</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> , was established to manage GPS and related issues in cooperation with other agencies. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last week, the two co-chairs of the PNT Executive Committee,</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III, and Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari, weighed in heavily on the LightSquared issue with a March 25 letter sent to FCC Chair Julius Genachowski. The letter stated</span> “active engagement with DoD and DOT, the national stewards and global providers of the Global Positioning Satellite [sic] (GPS) service, is essential to protect this ubiquitous defense, transportation, and economic utility as the WG process proceeds<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>” </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and noted an FCC</span> “lack of inclusiveness regarding input from federal stakeholders”. <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In the letter, FCC's Genachowski was asked to respond to </span> <span style='color:black'>“these matters at your earliest opportunity.” </span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>[Source: </span> <a href="http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2552"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2552</span></a> <span style='color:black'>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The PNT has also added a page to their website about the LightSquared issue: </span><a href="http://www.pnt.gov/interference/lightsquared/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.pnt.gov/interference/lightsquared/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The LightSquared issue seems to hinge on a possible conflict between two worthy priorities of the present Administration: GPS and the "<b>National Broadband Program", </b></span><a href="http://www.broadband.gov/"><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.broadband.gov/</span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. </span></b> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The National Broadband Program is been promoted heavily recently by </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>President Obama<span style='color:black'> and the FCC Chair he appointed in 2009, Julius Genachowski. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In his January 2011 State of the Union address, White House press releases, and recent speeches, the President has set goals to "within five years, we want to make it possible for businesses to put high-speed wireless services in reach of virtually every American." [Source: </span><a href="file:///\\www.whitehouse.gov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.whitehouse.gov</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Genachowski, a high tech industry insider before being appointed to chair the FCC, has stated in several recent speeches, both nationally and internationally, that "we've been able to act on dozens of rulemakings on our top priorities, like making more spectrum for mobile broadband, reforming universal service, and removing barriers to broadband deployment." [Sources: </span><a href="file:///\\www.fcc.gov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.fcc.gov</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> and </span><a href="file:///\\www.broadband.gov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.broadband.gov</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> ]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Light-Squared proposal is </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>to<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'>develop mobile broadband in the US by repurposing</span></span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>the spectrum immediately adjacent to the frequency for the GPS L1 signal. This repurposing would change the use of the adjacent spectrum from very low-power, space-to-earth transmissions, to use for extremely high-powered, ground-based transmissions for</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>mobile broadband</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. The waiver would allow installation of 40,000 towers nationwide that broadcast at a power of 15,000 watts in a frequency adjacent to GPS L1. Experts state that the transmission power from the broadband towers would be a billion or more times powerful than the very low power of the GPS L1 signal, and that interference will occur. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The FCC usually requires extensive testing and comment periods before such a major policy change, but in the LightSquared broadband proposal, they issued the waiver after a short two-month comment period and they had no initial interference testing requirement. Since initial protests (including<u> the</u></span><u> </u><a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/filings/2011/NTIA_FCCletter_01122011.pdf"><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#254967'>January 12 letter from the Dept of Commerce to the FCC</span></b></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> that I cited in my earlier E-mail), the FCC has added, in their</span> <a href="http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0126/DA-11-133A1.pdf">Order and Authorization</a> of January 26, <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>a testing requirement to address interference concerns</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>before</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> work can proceed on Light Squared's initiative. However, the FCC order allows LightSquared to sit on the FCC-ordered Working Group of GPS experts that is tasked to perform the interference testing. The FCC order does not clarify how conflicting conclusions of the Work Group will be addressed or acted upon and this is one of the concerns of the PNT Executive Committee. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I'm still confident that the PNT Executive Committee, working with other stakeholders, will succeed in protecting GPS spectrum. GPS is too ingrained in our nation's infrastructure to risk endangering. Ironically, GPS timing is used to time our national telecommunication networks and power grids, so GPS is critical to any national broadband plan.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In addition to the </span><a href="file:///\\www.PNT.gov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.PNT.gov</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> website, the </span><a href="file:///\\www.saveourgps.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.saveourgps.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> and </span><a href="file:///\\www.insidegnss.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.insidegnss.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> websites have updated information about the LightSquared issue.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ken</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Here's a couple of a recent update below from Glen Gibbons' Inside GNSS website:</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><b>GPS 'Stewards' DoD, DoT DepSecs Protest LightSquared Plan to FCC </b> <a href="http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2552"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.insidegnss.com/node/2552</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Glen Gibbons, March 30, 2011</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></b> <br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ken Bays, PLS</span></b> <br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Lead Geodetic Surveyor, Geometronics Unit </span></b><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon Department of Transportation </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Technical Manager, Oregon Real-time GPS Network (ORGN)</span></b> <br><a href="http://www.TheORGN.net"><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.TheORGN.net</span></b></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4040 Fairview Industrial Dr SE, MS 4, Salem, OR 97302 </span></b><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Phone: 503-986-3543 </span></b><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cell: 503-580-8793 </span></b><br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fax: 503-986-3548</span></b> <br><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>kenneth.bays@odot.state.or.us</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>