ITM General Chair: Dr. Samer Khanafseh, Illinois Institute of Technology/TruNav
ITM Program Chair: Dr. Byungwoon Park, Sejong University
PTTI Program Chair: Dr. Thejesh Bandi, The University of Alabama
PTTI Tutorials Chair: Dr. Daniele Monahan, The Aerospace Corporation
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All manuscripts will be peer reviewed
AI/ML and Advanced Navigation Algorithms
Application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to enhance navigation, including deep neural networks, boosting, graphical models, and both interpretable and unsupervised learning methods. AI/ML applications in GNSS signal processing, error modeling, anomaly detection, and integrated navigation. Algorithms and techniques leveraging network connectivity to assist and improve navigation. Innovative estimation methods such as factor graph optimization, distributed state estimation, advanced filtering, and integration with 3D models, landmarks, and other datasets. Utilization of cloud and crowd-sourced data for navigation. Development of algorithms for new applications and fresh approaches to modeling and numerical challenges in navigation and positioning. Robust positioning techniques suitable for challenging environments. Collaborative and cooperative positioning algorithms and theories.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Nobuaki Kubo, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Rebecca Wang, Stanford University
Alternatives, Backups, and Complements to GNSS
Alternative PNT solutions for applications such as aviation, maritime, transportation, rail, and spaceflight. Technologies addressing the vulnerability of GNSS users to natural threats and security vulnerabilities. New positioning methods and technologies from existing and emerging terrestrial and space-based transmitters, including low Earth orbit satellites, navigation aids, terrestrial transmitters, and pseudolites. Use of ubiquitous signals such as 5G/LTE, Wi-Fi, and communication satellite signals as signals of opportunity. Alternate and novel radionavigation signals and techniques. Technologies that complement or replace GNSS during outages. Solutions for terrestrial multipath and degenerate geometries in positioning. Examination of atmospheric distortions and integrity monitoring for signals of opportunity or other radionavigation systems.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Joshua Morales, StarNav LLC
Dr. Pyo-Woong Son, Chungbuk National University
Atmospheric Effects, GNSS Remote Sensing, and Scientific Applications
GNSS technologies used for environmental and scientific monitoring, modeling, and measuring atmospheric effects such as tropospheric delays and ionospheric delays; and sensing Earth's surface changes. Applications in radio occultation, ionospheric TEC and scintillation, and the detection of significant geophysical events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. GNSS reflectometry for environmental monitoring of atmosphere, soil moisture, vegetation, ocean wind, flood surveillance, oceanography, snow and ice, and inland water bodies. GNSS altimetry and GNSS-R based on spacecraft, aircraft, UAV, and ground observations. GNSS-based wind-speed retrieval. A combination of GNSS-R with other sensors. Novel GNSS applications exploring gravitational measurements and dark matter detection.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Vincenzo Romano, INGV
Dr. Andrew K. Sun, University of Colorado Boulder
GNSS Integrity and Augmentation
Integrity monitoring, fault detection, and exclusion in GNSS augmentation systems. Identification and modeling of GNSS faults, including satellite and constellation failure modes, as well as external threats like spoofing. Anomaly detection and protection level characterization, testing, and results. Requirements for receiver-based integrity to enhance reliability, safety, and efficiency. Dissemination of integrity support information, impact of data channel capacity and latency. Development of novel augmentation systems and multi-GNSS solutions, including GBAS and SBAS (WAAS, MSAS, EGNOS, GAGAN, SDCM, KASS), and ARAIM, as well as urban augmentation and multipath mitigation. Challenges in providing integrity in multi-frequency/multi-constellation services, including DFMC airborne models for antenna and measurement errors. Application of high-performance and safety-critical GNSS applications across sectors, including civil aviation, automotive, UAVs, rail, and maritime.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Takeyasu Sakai, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology
Dr. Eugene Bang, Gyeongsang National University
GNSS Security: Interference, Jamming, and Spoofing
Detection, characterization, and geolocation of intentional and unintentional interference. Mitigation strategies and improved robustness against spoofing, jamming, and general interference. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) characterization in the presence of interference and its effects on GNSS receivers. Development of software and hardware solutions, including signal processing and authentication. Fault detection and integrity assessment techniques related to spoofing or interference, including satellite or constellation-level anomaly detection. Architectures for incorporating backup and complementary PNT technologies for detecting and mitigating GNSS jamming and spoofing. Applications in robust positioning and secure time transfer. Threat modeling and analysis of GNSS disruption events. Spectrum monitoring and localization of interference sources using ground, airborne, and spaceborne receivers. Networks for spectrum monitoring. Use of smartphone GNSS data for spectrum monitoring. Techniques to enhance GNSS robustness through advanced signal processing, authentication, and complementary PNT methods.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Thomas Dautermann, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Dr. Okuary Osechas, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Innovations in Navigation for Smartphones and Wearables
Applications requiring reliable positioning solutions in smartphones and wearables. Enhanced positioning techniques in smartphones and wearables for improved indoor, outdoor, and urban-canyon navigation. Improved stochastic modeling of GNSS observables. Algorithms and multi-sensor fusion for enhanced accuracy in varied environments. Use of smartphone raw GNSS measurements for scientific applications in geosciences. Detection and mitigation of jamming and spoofing threats in smartphone- and wearable-based positioning systems. Quality assessment of GNSS antennas in smartphones and wearables, including evaluation of antenna phase center offsets and variations.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Jung-beom Kim, Samsung Electronics
Dr. Kimia Shamaei,
Next-Generation Satellite Navigation: Future GNSS and LEO-PNT
Innovations in future generation satellite navigation technology; advancements in satellite constellations. Strategies and approaches for the interoperability and compatibility of GNSS constellations. Enhancements in GNSS signal structure through improved codes and data messages. Cutting-edge technologies, including highly stable frequency standards onboard navigation satellites and intersatellite links. Multi-layer satellite navigation: development of new (institutional and private) navigation systems and extension of GNSS into low Earth orbit (LEO) and/or other orbits. Adaptations for fused broadband and navigation satellite systems. Updates on constellation characteristics and programmatic elements, along with ground control and monitoring segments. Evaluation of the performance of new satellites and services. Examination of RF compatibility, mutual interference, and antenna pattern characterization.
Session Chairs:
Elena Galletti, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Dr. Thyagaraja Marathe, Xona
PNT for Space Applications
Emerging applications in space positioning, navigation, and timing at locations near Earth (e.g., LEO, GEO, HEO) and beyond (e.g., Moon, cislunar, Mars, asteroids). Design and implementation of navigation systems for in-space applications, including space-grade GNSS receivers for re-entering vehicles. Enhancing spacecraft positioning with inter-satellite links and satellite laser ranging. Innovative approaches for satellite constellation build-up and maintenance. Application of GNSS for orbit and attitude determination, including precise orbit determination. Navigation techniques for the Moon, and cislunar and translunar areas beyond Earth's geosynchronous belt. Relative navigation near asteroids and comets; rendezvous and docking maneuvers. Advanced space positioning techniques, including snapshot-based positioning, both on the ground and in space. Interplanetary navigation technologies using GNSS, other RF signals, electro-optical systems, and global or local magnetic fields. Enhanced PNT solutions at LEO, GEO, and HEO. Utilization of environmental features and signals like pulsars, clock aids, and integration with other sensors for cooperative positioning.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Fabio Dovis, Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Masaya Murata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Precise GNSS Positioning and Applications
Advances in GNSS positioning methods, applications and analysis. Multi-GNSS precise point positioning (PPP), real-time kinematic (RTK), PPP-RTK, network RTK and partial ambiguity resolution. Integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) from high-precision geodetic-quality and/or low-cost antennas and receivers, including smartphones. Positioning algorithms using space-based augmentation services such as the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS). Multi-constellation solutions employing single- or multi-frequency geodetic and low-cost receivers/antennas. GNSS satellite clock errors characterization and modeling; precise orbit determination for scientific applications. Interoperability of GNSS correction services with different user equipment, robustness against multipath, interference, and other local effects, including AI-driven error modeling. Integrity of precise positioning solutions. GNSS signals and performance characterization and monitoring. High-precision and high-integrity applications. Novel applications of precise GNSS positioning. Crustal and structural deformation monitoring, including GNSS seismology, atmospheric remote sensing, and precision agriculture.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Amir Khodabandeh, University of Melbourne
Dr. Sophie Damy, European Commission
Receiver Design, Signal Processing, and Antennas
GNSS receiver signal processing techniques for enhanced resiliency in challenging environments such as indoor, urban canyons, foliage, scintillation, high dynamics, and under interference. Design of receivers optimized for modernized GNSS signals. Development and application of software-based GNSS receivers. Enhancements in acquisition and tracking sensitivity, robustness, and accuracy. Mitigation strategies for multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals. Design and evaluation of GNSS antennas and antenna electronics. Optimization of receiver architecture, signal processing, and antenna design for mass-market and low-cost devices. Calibration processes for multi-GNSS receivers. Utilization of multi-GNSS signal simulators for testing and development.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Sabrina Ugazio, Ohio University
Dr. Stefan Söderholm, Septentrio
Resilient Navigation for Safety-Critical Applications
Navigation systems for assisted and autonomous vehicles and mobile platforms in safety-critical applications, including civil aviation, automotive, urban air mobility (UAM), uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), maritime, and rail. Integrity monitoring for safety-critical applications using GNSS and additional sensors. Support through assistance and cloud-based technologies for reliable and secure autonomous systems. Mitigating the effects of jamming, spoofing, or any form of radio frequency interference (RFI) on civilian aircraft and other safety-critical platforms. Seamlessly maintaining and quantifying integrity to provide safe, secure, and robust navigation services, including en-route services like performance-based navigation (PBN) or required navigation performance (RNP), as well as landing services like GBAS approach service types (GAST) or localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV). Innovative integrity algorithms, advanced receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (ARAIM), and novel error models that account for non-Gaussian errors and time-correlation effects. Novel antennas, algorithms, navigation systems, monitoring and warning systems, data fusion and integration. Safety protocols, integrity standards, and certification criteria for autonomous navigation and guidance systems. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for the detection and classification of interference threats.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Juan Blanch, Stanford University
Dr. Maria Caamano, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Sensor Fusion and Navigation in GNSS-Challenged Environments
Integration of data from multiple sensors and information sources for navigation in GNSS-challenged and GNSS-denied environments. Application of estimation theories, algorithms, and data processing techniques. Testing and results from integrating diverse sensors such as GNSS, inertial sensors (IMUs), odometers, magnetometers, radar, lidar, cameras, barometers, maps, infrared, and ultrasound sensors. Sensor fusion with signals of opportunity (SOOP), non-RF aiding (e.g., vision and lidar), and vehicle dynamic model aiding of inertial systems. Navigation strategies for urban canyons, indoor settings, and GNSS-denied environments. Use of low-cost devices for pedestrian, automotive, and UAV/UUV/UGV applications. Modeling of environmental effects on navigation sensors, including magnetic and gravity models.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Guohao Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Ali Hassani, Honeywell Aerospace
Organizer: Dr. Daniele Monahan, The Aerospace Corporation
Peer review available
Activities at National Metrology Laboratories, Including Transitioning to New Definition of SI Second
Recent developments at National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) and Designated Institutes (DIs) underpin global time and frequency metrology. This session invites contributions on methods for generating, maintaining, and comparing UTC(k), including advances in timescale algorithms, clock ensemble management, and uncertainty evaluation. It provides a platform for NMIs, observatories, and international organizations to present advances in UTC(k) performance, time dissemination, calibration, and precision measurements supporting science, industry, and emerging technologies. Emphasis is placed on enhancing realization and dissemination of UTC and the SI second, including progress toward redefinition driven by optical clocks. Contributions are encouraged from organizations such as BIPM, IERS, ITU, NASA, ESA, and others. Topics include hardware development, calibration and traceability, optical clock integration, international collaboration, interoperability, global comparisons, and pathways transitioning from microwave to optical standards, enabling resilient, scalable, and globally consistent timekeeping.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Nils Nemitz, NICT
Dr. Liz Donley, Measured Atomics
Advances in Ground Atomic Clocks
Ground-based atomic clocks have advanced beyond laboratory settings, enabling robust operation across land, sea, and air platforms. This session invites contributions on recent developments in high-performance clocks for precision measurement in science and applied metrology. Topics include hot and cold atom, ion and molecular clocks; microwave, terahertz, and optical clocks; optical frequency combs for ground applications; ultra-stable lasers, cryogenic sapphire oscillators, and optically pumped systems. Emphasis is placed on improving accuracy, stability, robustness, and environmental resilience, along with advances in modeling, control, and long-term performance. Contributions on compact, transportable systems, integration with PNT infrastructures, benchmarking, and real-world applications.
Session Chairs:
Dr. John Elgin, Airforce Research Lab
Dr. Franklin Ascarrunz, SpectraDynamics Inc.
Advances in Low-SWaP Oscillators, Atomic Clocks and Ground Applications
Low-SWaP clocks and oscillators are critical for next-generation commercial, defense, and scientific applications requiring robust, autonomous, and energy-efficient timing. This session invites contributions on advances in compact timing technologies, including CSACs, vapor-cell, miniature beam, ion, and cold-atom clocks; MEMS and quartz oscillators; and miniature and micro-optical frequency combs. Emphasis is placed on improving accuracy, stability, phase noise, and reliability under harsh conditions, including shock, vibration, temperature, and EMI. Topics include SWaP optimization, power management, packaging, modeling, calibration, benchmarking, hybrid architectures, and scalable manufacturing. Applications span GNSS-denied navigation, autonomous systems, telecommunications, and industrial timing.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Jenna Chan, Army Research Lab
Dr. Wale Lawal, MESA Quantum Systems Inc.
Conventional and Machine Learning Methods and Algorithms for Timescales and Timing Applications
Stochastic methods are central to clock analysis and timing applications, from two-sample variance to advanced filtering, estimation, and prediction. This session invites contributions on algorithms for analyzing clock data, handling anomalies and missing observations, computing robust statistics, and enabling accurate time transfer and timescale generation. Topics include clock modeling, uncertainty estimation, interpolation/extrapolation, ensemble clock management, and predictive synchronization in dynamic environments. Applications span local oscillators to space-based timekeeping, including lunar and deep-space timescales. Emphasis is placed on machine learning, neural networks, Kalman filtering, optical timescales, anomaly mitigation, and data-driven or software-defined approaches.
Session Chairs:
Jamie McKelvy, JPL-NASA/Caltech
Dr. Andrea Auer, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Electronics for Precision Timing Applications
Precision timing relies on advanced analog and digital electronics enabling ultra-low-noise signal generation, conditioning, distribution, and measurement across diverse environments. This session invites contributions on noise mitigation, low-phase-noise design, clock distribution, signal integrity, and EMC control. Topics include environmental compensation, radiation-tolerant, and high-reliability electronics for ground, air, sea, and space platforms. Contributions are encouraged on mixed-signal technologies such as ADCs/DACs, FPGAs, SoCs, and DSP-based architectures, as well as SDR, hybrid analog–digital, and photonic integration. The session also welcomes work on time-sensitive networking, synchronization hardware, embedded systems, and scalable timing architectures, emphasizing stability, efficiency, resilience, and applications in PNT, communications, quantum systems, and next-generation infrastructures.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Claudio E. Calosso, INRIM
Craig Nelson, Frequency Electronics Inc.
Environmental Sensitivity of Clocks and Timing Systems
Clock and timing system performance is strongly influenced, and often limited, by the environmental conditions in which they must operate. This is especially relevant in deployed applications. Contributing factors include temperature, vibration, pressure, electromagnetic interference, ionizing radiation, and dynamic conditions. This session invites contributions on measurement, modeling, and mitigation techniques. Potential topics include experimental methods, test protocols, and field testing across mobile, industrial, and space environments. Contributions on mitigation strategies such as compensation, isolation, and adaptive design are encouraged. Component and system-level analyses for high-performance oscillators and systems of any type are welcome, with emphasis on benchmarking and reliability. Submissions are encouraged to align with IEEE 1193, which provides a framework for improving specification accuracy by distinguishing total sensitivity from linearized sensitivity coefficients, enabling better modeling and prediction.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Daphna Enzer, JPL-NASA/Caltech
Dr. Joshua Hill, Army Research Lab
Established and Novel T&F Transfer Technologies Including Advanced Methods
Topics include advanced GNSS techniques such as PPP, PPP-RTK, carrier-phase, and common-view methods, as well as next-generation TWSTFT, including SDR-based systems for flexible, high-precision transfer. Contributions are encouraged on bidirectional optical links, coherent optical frequency transfer, free-space optics, White Rabbit and deterministic network synchronization, quantum-based time transfer, optical clock networks, Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) to ground time synchronization and inter-satellite crosslink synchronization. Emphasis is placed on ACES clock comparison and assessment, including space-to-ground relativistic comparisons and link performance evaluation. The session also welcomes work on time-traceability chains, intercontinental comparisons, and multimodal architectures that enable resilient, scalable solutions. Emerging directions include multi-constellation GNSS processing, GNSS-based clock comparisons, and advanced network-based precision timing for metrology, physics, and next-generation PNT.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Michael Coleman, Naval Research Laboratory
Calvin Lin, Telecommunication Labs
GNSS Systems Timing Architectures and Capabilities
Timekeeping is central to GNSS, requiring coordinated space, control, and user segment architectures for reliable PNT services. This session invites contributions on timing architectures for current and next-generation GNSS across LEO, MEO, GEO, and cislunar domains. Topics include system time generation, synchronization, inter-segment coordination, and end-to-end dissemination. Submissions may address hybrid architectures, pLEO integration, and advanced timing services to enhance robustness and scalability. Emphasis is placed on synchronization strategies, crosslink timing, and performance under degraded UTC or GNSS access, targeting picosecond stability. Contributions on modeling, control, resilience, cybersecurity, and applications in space missions and autonomous systems are encouraged.
Session Chairs:
Dr. John Janis, L3Harris
Benjamin Pera, NIST
Innovative Time Synchronization and Dissemination Techniques
Time and frequency transfer is evolving with emerging terrestrial and space-based systems redefining precise timing generation and dissemination. This session invites contributions on innovative techniques beyond RF and GNSS, including integration with 5G/6G, optical fiber, free-space optical links, and software-defined architectures. Topics include packet-based timing, cross-layer synchronization, hybrid RF-optical transfer, and resilient operation in denied environments. Submissions on unconventional methods—natural phenomena, opportunistic signals, quantum and entanglement-based timing, and astrophysical references—are encouraged. The session welcomes theoretical, simulation, and experimental work addressing security, robustness, scalability, and applications in autonomous systems, financial infrastructure, and critical networks.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Giancarlo Cerretto, INRIM
Amir Osman, Oak Ridge National Lab
Integrated Quantum Sensors for Timing, Data Transmission, Quantum Networking and Other Science Applications
Precise timing and synchronization are essential for quantum technologies, including communication, computing, and distributed sensing. This session invites contributions on integrating quantum sensors and advanced timing systems for quantum networks and data transmission. While some systems rely on post-processing, others require ultra-precise synchronization of photon arrival times, phase coherence, and latency across distributed nodes, often beyond conventional methods. Topics include timing strategies for quantum networks; integration of cold atom sensors, quantum clocks, and sensor-based timing; and architectures enabling high-rate, low-latency, secure data transmission. Contributions on terrestrial and space-based quantum networks, including satellite links and hybrid systems, are encouraged. Emerging areas include AI-driven timing optimization, adaptive synchronization, anomaly detection, and novel optical, quantum, and hybrid time transfer techniques.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Judith Olsen, HRL Laboratories
Dr. Markus Krutzik, Humboldt-University of Berlin
LEO Satellite Timing Requirements and Applications
Low Earth orbit (LEO)-based time transfer is advancing with proliferated LEO (pLEO) constellations enabling large-scale deployment. Low-cost satellites with inter-satellite links support rapid timing dissemination via two-way ranging, enabling resilient, low-latency transfer for navigation, positioning, and communications, even in GNSS-denied environments. This session invites contributions on pLEO-based time transfer for space and terrestrial users across commercial and defense sectors. Topics include timing architectures, synchronization strategies, performance under degraded UTC access, and picosecond-level stability. Emphasis is on scalable, autonomous systems, along with modeling, control, environmental resilience, system integration, interoperability, crosslink synchronization, benchmarking, and applications spanning metrology, communications, and resilient PNT.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Penina Axelrad, University of Colorado Boulder
Peter Cash, Microchip Technology Inc.
Lunar Timekeeping and Navigation
Establishing an independent lunar timekeeping framework synchronized with terrestrial standards is essential for sustained lunar exploration and cislunar infrastructure. With missions such as Artemis II and future lunar operations, resilient, high-precision PNT capabilities are critical. This session invites contributions on advanced PNT architectures for lunar orbiters and surface systems, with a focus on clock technologies, timekeeping, and synchronization for reliable operations. Topics include lunar timescales (LTC), UTC-lunar synchronization with relativistic considerations, clock performance in lunar conditions, and time transfer across cislunar space. Contributions may address modeling, uncertainty, crosslink synchronization, and scalable architectures enabling autonomous navigation and interoperability with Earth-based and deep-space systems.
Session Chairs:
Cheryl Gramling, NASA-HQ
Dr. Patrizia Tavella, BIPM
Present and Future Clocks for Space Missions
The development of next-generation space-qualified atomic clocks and oscillators is critical for advanced space missions and precision timing infrastructures. This session invites contributions on clock systems operating across LEO, MEO, GEO, and deep-space environments, including cislunar and interplanetary missions. Topics include radiation hardness, mechanical, thermal, magnetic tolerance, and long-term reliability. Contributions may address space qualification, environmental testing, reliability assessment, system integration, flight readiness, and in-orbit performance. Emphasis is placed on compact, low-SWaP clocks for resilient timing supporting space-based PNT. Advances in spaceborne frequency standards and high-stability oscillators addressing next-generation GNSS and lunar missions are encouraged.
Session Chairs:
Dr. James Camparo, The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Marco Belloni, European Space Agency
Time and Frequency Transfer Supporting 1E-18 and Beyond
Clock and timing system performance is strongly influenced, and often limited, by the environmental conditions in which they must operate. This is especially relevant in deployed applications. Contributing factors include temperature, vibration, pressure, electromagnetic interference, ionizing radiation, and dynamic conditions. This session invites contributions on measurement, modeling, and mitigation techniques. Potential topics include experimental methods, test protocols, and field testing across mobile, industrial, and space environments. Contributions on mitigation strategies such as compensation, isolation, and adaptive design are encouraged. Component and system-level analyses for high-performance oscillators and systems of any type are welcome, with emphasis on benchmarking and reliability. Submissions are encouraged to align with IEEE 1193, which provides a framework for improving specification accuracy by distinguishing total sensitivity from linearized sensitivity coefficients, enabling better modeling and prediction.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Josef Vojtech, CESNET
Carsten Rieck, RISE
Students are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentation covering any of the itemized PTTI or ITM session
topics. To participate, submit a 300–500-word abstract that clearly outlines the problem, methodology, key results,
and relevance. The accepted author will be required to: submit a PDF of the poster by January 5, 2027, and to comply
with all other author requirements as outlined in the online author materials, or the poster will be withdrawn. Papers
and video presentations will not be required for this session.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Park Jihye, Oregon State University (ITM)
Dr. Adam Hauser, The University of Alabama (PTTI)
Abstracts should be submitted via the ION Abstract Management Portal, no later than October 2, 2026.
ION strongly encourages authors to present in-person at ITM/PTTI. Authors will be given the option at the point of abstract submission to submit for "in-person presentation with video presentation for remote viewers" or "on-demand presentation only." Authors will not be permitted to change from in-person presentation to on-demand presentation after the program is finalized.
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NEW! PTTI Peer Review: Submission of an academic manuscript for peer review is optional.
Completed manuscripts for peer review must be uploaded to AMP by December 1, 2026. Manuscripts not received by December 1, 2026 will not be peer reviewed.
Manuscripts meeting established peer review/editorial oversight standards will be included in the conference proceedings. Manuscripts will only be peer reviewed one time. Authors will be given the opportunity to make corrections/revisions to their manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings through February 3, 2027. Revised manuscripts will not be re-reviewed for peer review designation.
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Authors of appropriate papers are encouraged to submit papers for possible publication in the ION’s archival journal, NAVIGATION (indexed in the Web of Science). Papers may be submitted at https://www.ion.org/navi/submit-navi.cfm.
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