An Introduction to the GPS Guidance Package (GGP)

Abstract

Under DARPA sponsorship, NOSC has made a dual contract award for advanced development brassboard models of a Global Positioning System Guidance Package (GGP). The approximate $28 million in contracts were awarded to the contractor teams of Texas Instrument & Honeywell and Litton Systems & Rockwell Collins. The existing 48 month (GGP Phase 1) contracts provide for the advanced development of a strapdown inertial guidance package comprised of a navigation grade Interferrometric Fiberoptic Gyro (IFOG) tightly coupled to a miniaturized GPS receiver (MGR). The GGP exploits the synergisms achieved by combining inertially sensed Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) movement goal is to produce a combined GPS/IMU navigation grade system which will be miniaturized for easy insertion into any host vehicle, and inexpensive for use by expendable vehicles (weapons and platforms). Follow-on Phase 2 contracts will develop preproduction prototype GGP units tailored for specific platforms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA264983

Entities

People

  • William C. Homer

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Accuracy
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Instrumentation
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Kalman Filters
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Navigational Equipment
  • Ocean Surveillance
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space