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Abstract Deadline: February 3, 2025

Technical Program Committee

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).

  • Technical sessions held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center on June 2-4 are CUI US-Only.
  • The exhibit hall, June 3-4 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, will be open to all conference participants, exhibitors, their employees and related organizations. All materials displayed in the exhibit hall shall be Publicly Releasable After Review.
  • The classified session, held June 5 at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), will be presented at the US-Only Secret level.

Abstract submission has closed.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

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:

  1. An abstract describing objectives, anticipated or actual results, conclusions, key innovative steps, and the significance of your work. Abstracts not meeting the 300-word minimum will not be forwarded to the program committee for review.
  2. Abstract must be public release. Start the approval of your abstract early as this can often take several weeks. Abstracts are due by February 3, 2025. Based on demand, late abstracts will not be accepted.
  3. Optional: Presenters will be given an option to include a CUI abstract, in addition to the required public release abstract, for review by program committee/conference organizers that have been pre-cleared by the security office. To this end, the author may include technical information that is protected under DoD tech-protect guidelines and CUI restrictions. Note that the submission of a CUI abstract, without a sufficiently descriptive public release abstract, will NOT be considered. All CUI materials will be deleted once the program is finalized.

Presentation Requirements

  1. Sessions will consist of presentations. Unless otherwise noted, all presentations must be approved as CUI US-Only. An electronic copy of your final presentation (typically a PDF) with a signed release form must be received by the ION National Office by June 9 to be included in the CUI US-Only proceedings.
  2. You must be a citizen of the USA to present at the conference and also provide verification of SECRET CLEARANCE to present in the classified session (June 5); you must also meet all established security validation requirements.
  3. All presenters must pay conference registration fees.
  4. Presenters must attend JNC in person (no virtual presentations) and attend the mandatory Speakers’ Breakfast the morning of their presentation.
  5. Failure to meet any of these requirements may result in the cancellation of your presentation from the program. Presenters are encouraged to review the online materials in the JNC speaker resource center.

Conference Proceedings

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.

Journal Publication

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.

Conference Attendance Information

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.