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Joint DOD Mission Uses
Position Integrity Digital Aviator in Kenya Relief Effort
May 1,
2000 Navy and Army troops were deployed
today to provide medical relief and food supplies to Mombasa Harbor, Kenya
under a CENTCOM mission called NATURAL FIRE 00. Position Integrity provided its GPS-Based Digital Aviator
tactical display application which ran on laptops used by the Intelligence
Officers. Digital Aviator in turn used
NIMA datasets from their ADRG, CADRG, DNC, VMAP, DAFIF, and DVOF collections. While the units were deployed with
commercial grade GPS units, they couldn't have picked a more opportune time to
use them. On the evening of the first
day's deployment, President Clinton announced that Selective Availability, the
intentional degrading of commercial GPS performance, would cease at midnight of
that day. The joint services used the PI/DA
software for navigation from the large Navy ships onto shore and then from the
shore area to the Embassy and relief dispatch points within Mombasa City. Therefore map databases were provided by
Position Integrity for the sea, land and air domains. The same application was designed for just such a multi-mode
transportation mission based on the Position Integrity's history of supporting
the U.S. Special Operations Command Jagged Shadow Digital Call for Fire (DCFF)
system. DCFF is worn on a soldier's
body and is used in all the transportation modes within the same mission: helicopter, fixed wind, zodiac, personal
submarine, ground vehicle and by foot. For more
information contact Robert A. Severino at Position Integrity
or by email at robert.severino@positionintegrity.com |
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