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Military Division Chair: Dr. Keith McDonald, The MITRE Corporation
Military Division Vice Chair: Dr. J.P. Laine, Draper
Immediate Past Chair: Dr. Thomas Powell, The Aerospace Corporation
Program Chair: Dr. Madeleine Naudeau, AFRL
Program Vice-Chair: Dr. Jacob Campbell, AFRL Sensors Directorate
Tutorials Chair: Paul Olson, Army DEVCOM C5ISR and Dr. Greg Reynolds, Army DEVCOM AvMC
Technical Track Chairs:
John Del Colliano, Army DEVCOM C5ISR
Misty Finical, OSD A&S
Brian Louie, SSC/SYD1
Aaron Nascimento, NAVWARSYSCOM
Greg Panas, Army DEVCOM AC
Dr. Thomas Powell, The Aerospace Corporation
Other Members:
Jan Anszperger, Draper
Amanda Humphrey, NSWC Crane
John Langer, The Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Steven Lewis, The Aerospace Corporation
Chad Pinkelman, NIWC Pacific
Dr. Joseph J. Rushanan, The MITRE Corporation
David Wolfe, USGC C5ISC
The Military Division of the Institute of Navigation will host the 2025 Joint Navigation Conference (JNC 2025) for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. The theme of this year’s conference will be:
Robust, Resilient, Assured PNT for Warfighters and Homeland Defense
JNC is the largest U.S. military Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) conference of the year with joint service and government participation. The event will focus on technical advances in PNT with emphasis on joint development, testing, and support of resilient PNT systems, logistics and integration. From an operational perspective, the conference will focus on advances in military applications of GPS; critical strengths and weaknesses of field navigation devices; warfighter PNT requirements and solutions; and navigation warfare.
SESSION ACCESS/CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS
Entry validation for JNC 2025 will be screened by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Abstracts Due: February 3, 2025
All abstracts must be written for public release with intent to present in a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) US-Only environment. Abstracts not approved for public release will not be accepted. Note that you must be a citizen of the USA to submit an abstract for CUI US-Only sessions (June 2-4).
Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the ION Abstract Management Portal (AMP), no later than February 3, 2025. To submit an abstract, sign in at ion.org/abstracts.
Acceptance to the JNC conference is competitive. The following are required:
Submitted presentations that are approved for public release (Distribution A) and/or CUI distribution will be released to U.S. citizens who were approved to attend the conference by the AFRL in an electronic CUI proceedings 2-4 weeks following the conference.
JNC presenters are encouraged to write Publicly Releasable After Review technical papers based on their JNC presentations to submit for possible publication in the ION’s indexed archival journal, NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation. Papers may be submitted for publication online.
The JNC’s DTS conference ID is N20150610734
The conference will be hosted in a CUI US-Only environment June 2-4 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, KY (restricted to U.S. government and U.S. government contractors) and a US-Only SECRET on June 5 at AFIT (restricted to U.S. government and U.S. government contractors with SECRET CLEARANCE).
Registration and Hotel Reservation information is available online.