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.