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In 2007, NGS began planning for the modernized NSRS, acquiring its first airborne gravimeter, creating and initiating the Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D) project and by 2008 had codified its modernization plans into a Ten Year Plan. At that time, the target completion date was 2018. By 2013, that date seemed unlikely, due to both the broadening of the GRAV-D coverage area and the experience of five years of operational planning and execution.

In 2013, NGS revised its 2008 Plan, and targeted 2022 as the date of the release of the modernized NSRS. This date was reinforced with a 2018 Strategic Plan revision. By 2017, confidence in hitting the 2022 target was high enough to reach final agreement with Canada and Mexico on a naming convention for certain components, to include “2022” in their names.

Since 2017, operational, workforce, and other issues have arisen and compounded, causing NGS to recently re-evaluate whether a successful roll-out by 2022 is possible. The most significant impacts have been in workforce hiring and retention, and in meeting GRAV-D data collection milestones, which underpin the NSRS modernization efforts.

NGS is currently conducting a comprehensive analysis of ongoing projects, programs, and resources required to complete NSRS modernization and will continue to provide regular updates on our progress. To get the latest news on NSRS modernization and track our progress, subscribe to NGS News or visit our "New Datums" web pages.

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It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our founder Javad Ashjaee, a GPS/GNSS pioneer and visionary, on the morning of May 30, 2020, due to COVID-19 in Moscow, Russia.

Over the course of 37 years, Javad made an incredible and far-reaching impact in the GNSS community. He pioneered the world's most advanced GNSS technology through a multi-national effort that combined GPS and GLONASS and established more than a quarter century of partnership between Silicon Valley and Moscow. He was always proud of this "success story of cooperation". Javad was a true industry disrupter long before the term and concept became popular. His whole way of doing business was challenging and disrupting to the status quo.

His hundreds of GNSS inventions and tens of thousands of products are in continuous use all over the globe, including above it! Often, his revolutionary innovations were imitated by his competitors. As Oscar Wilde wrote, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

At the height of the Great Recession in 2009, Javad bucked the offshore outsourcing trend and chose instead to invest in U.S. manufacturing. He declared "SILICON VALLEY IS BACK TO BUILD" and founded JAVAD EMS, which provides electronic manufacturing services where all JAVAD GNSS solutions are built as well as products from a diverse customer base which are deployed from the bottom of the ocean, to the International Space Station and beyond.

While advancing his technology and business efforts, Javad never lost his roots as a professor. He always aimed to educate and elevate everyone around him, even if it was an entire industry. His most profound skill was not in his technology: it was his ability to bring people together rather than to draw lines between them. At the end of life what matters is not what we bought but what we built, not what we got but what we shared, not our competency but our character, and not our success but our significance.

On the day of his passing, Javad's technology played a role in the first successful crewed space vehicle launch from U.S. soil since the final Space Shuttle launch nine years ago. Javad did not wait for all of us, he launched himself to the 'heavens' in his own special Javad way.

To learn more about Javad's GNSS history, written by the man himself, please click here, here.

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1. In addition to the FGCS standard format (bluebook), users may now opt for "free format" input and/or output
2. The output "quality" file has been merged with the output "coordinate" file. (4 output files have been reduced to 3)
3. The "User Guide" and "Operating Instructions" have been merged into one document (3 supporting documents have been reduced to 2)
4. Minor bug fixes 
   Both updates have been released on the NGS Beta website for test and evaluation. NGS encourages users to try them and provide feedback so that the final product may be improved prior to release as official NGS products.

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It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our founder Javad Ashjaee, a GPS/GNSS pioneer and visionary, on the morning of May 30, 2020, due to COVID-19 in Moscow, Russia.

Over the course of 37 years, Javad made an incredible and far-reaching impact in the GNSS community. He pioneered the world's most advanced GNSS technology through a multi-national effort that combined GPS and GLONASS and established more than a quarter century of partnership between Silicon Valley and Moscow. He was always proud of this "success story of cooperation". Javad was a true industry disrupter long before the term and concept became popular. His whole way of doing business was challenging and disrupting to the status quo.

His hundreds of GNSS inventions and tens of thousands of products are in continuous use all over the globe, including above it! Often, his revolutionary innovations were imitated by his competitors. As Oscar Wilde wrote, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

At the height of the Great Recession in 2009, Javad bucked the offshore outsourcing trend and chose instead to invest in U.S. manufacturing. He declared "SILICON VALLEY IS BACK TO BUILD" and founded JAVAD EMS, which provides electronic manufacturing services where all JAVAD GNSS solutions are built as well as products from a diverse customer base which are deployed from the bottom of the ocean, to the International Space Station and beyond.

While advancing his technology and business efforts, Javad never lost his roots as a professor. He always aimed to educate and elevate everyone around him, even if it was an entire industry. His most profound skill was not in his technology: it was his ability to bring people together rather than to draw lines between them. At the end of life what matters is not what we bought but what we built, not what we got but what we shared, not our competency but our character, and not our success but our significance.

On the day of his passing, Javad's technology played a role in the first successful crewed space vehicle launch from U.S. soil since the final Space Shuttle launch nine years ago. Javad did not wait for all of us, he launched himself to the 'heavens' in his own special Javad way.

To learn more about Javad's GNSS history, written by the man himself, please click here, here.

 It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our founder Javad Ashjaee, a GPS/GNSS pioneer and visionary, on the morning of May 30, 2020, due to COVID-19 in Moscow, Russia.

Over the course of 37 years, Javad made an incredible and far-reaching impact in the GNSS community. He pioneered the world's most advanced GNSS technology through a multi-national effort that combined GPS and GLONASS and established more than a quarter century of partnership between Silicon Valley and Moscow. He was always proud of this "success story of cooperation". Javad was a true industry disrupter long before the term and concept became popular. His whole way of doing business was challenging and disrupting to the status quo.

His hundreds of GNSS inventions and tens of thousands of products are in continuous use all over the globe, including above it! Often, his revolutionary innovations were imitated by his competitors. As Oscar Wilde wrote, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

At the height of the Great Recession in 2009, Javad bucked the offshore outsourcing trend and chose instead to invest in U.S. manufacturing. He declared "SILICON VALLEY IS BACK TO BUILD" and founded JAVAD EMS, which provides electronic manufacturing services where all JAVAD GNSS solutions are built as well as products from a diverse customer base which are deployed from the bottom of the ocean, to the International Space Station and beyond.

While advancing his technology and business efforts, Javad never lost his roots as a professor. He always aimed to educate and elevate everyone around him, even if it was an entire industry. His most profound skill was not in his technology: it was his ability to bring people together rather than to draw lines between them. At the end of life what matters is not what we bought but what we built, not what we got but what we shared, not our competency but our character, and not our success but our significance.

On the day of his passing, Javad's technology played a role in the first successful crewed space vehicle launch from U.S. soil since the final Space Shuttle launch nine years ago. Javad did not wait for all of us, he launched himself to the 'heavens' in his own special Javad way.

Over the course of 37 years, Javad made an incredible and far-reaching impact in the GNSS community. He pioneered the world's most advanced GNSS technology through a multi-national effort that combined GPS and GLONASS and established more than a quarter century of partnership between Silicon Valley and Moscow. He was always proud of this "success story of cooperation". Javad was a true industry disrupter long before the term and concept became popular. His whole way of doing business was challenging and disrupting to the status quo.

His hundreds of GNSS inventions and tens of thousands of products are in continuous use all over the globe, including above it! Often, his revolutionary innovations were imitated by his competitors. As Oscar Wilde wrote, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

At the height of the Great Recession in 2009, Javad bucked the offshore outsourcing trend and chose instead to invest in U.S. manufacturing. He declared "SILICON VALLEY IS BACK TO BUILD" and founded JAVAD EMS, which provides electronic manufacturing services where all JAVAD GNSS solutions are built as well as products from a diverse customer base which are deployed from the bottom of the ocean, to the International Space Station and beyond.

While advancing his technology and business efforts, Javad never lost his roots as a professor. He always aimed to educate and elevate everyone around him, even if it was an entire industry. His most profound skill was not in his technology: it was his ability to bring people together rather than to draw lines between them. At the end of life what matters is not what we bought but what we built, not what we got but what we shared, not our competency but our character, and not our success but our significance.

On the day of his passing, Javad's technology played a role in the first successful crewed space vehicle launch from U.S. soil since the final Space Shuttle launch nine years ago. Javad did not wait for all of us, he launched himself to the 'heavens' in his own special Javad way.

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After viewing news coverage of recent flooding in many areas of Oklahoma, I would like to offer whatever assistance the National Society of Professional Surveyors Foundation, Inc. may be able to offer to Oklahoma surveyors. I have attached a copy of the eligibility requirements for receiving such assistance. Please advise me if we can be of assistance.

If you, or anyone you know working in the surveying field has been affected by flooding, please contact OSLS for further instructions on receiving relief from NSPS.

Guidelines for Disaster Relief