Virginia Office
DOD POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING (PNT) SUPPORT
Overlook provides the Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO) programmatic and engineering support, technical analyses, assessments, and policy formulation support with respect to the development, acquisition, deployment, and operation of all DoD PNT systems including national security, civil, commercial, international cooperative, and other policy aspects of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Task areas include:
- DoD Directives, Instructions, and Manuals for PNT, NAVWAR, and GPS policy and procedures
- Program management and oversight of the DoD PNT Executive Committee and Working Groups
- DoD PNT Architecture and PNT system-of-systems evolution concepts
- Interagency coordination and international cooperation
- National and international spectrum activities
- Congressional reporting
- Defense Science Boards
- DoD input to the Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP)
- Navigation Warfare (Navwar)
- Policy Board for Federal Aviation
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Overlook analysts support the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) at NASA Headquarters in the areas of,
- Provision of standardized PNT services within NASA to enable greater autonomous space operations with reduced user burdens and reduced costs on NASA communication networks
- NASA interagency advocacy for government-provided PNT services in support of NASA missions
- Coordination within NASA of technology development activities relating to PNT in support of NASA missions.
Specific activities in support of this area include: development of space data standards within the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG) and Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) activities; integration of PNT Standards and Interfaces to the NASA Navigation Roadmap; development of scalable architecture to meet navigation and science requirements in a future evolution of 'space internet' communications network; development of GPS space user requirements; organizing the GNSS Interoperability Study Group to support the U.S. Department of State delegation to the International Committee for GNSS (ICG), implementation of GPS Metric Tracking for NASA launch services, RNSS spectrum protection activities (including the NTIA GPS Protection Plan, FCC licensing of GPS re-radiators, international GNSS licensing in the US, RNSS Experts Group, and RTCA); and implementation of navigation signal broadcast including GPS differential corrections, integrity, and other navigation data to space users.
CHIEF
OF NAVAL OPERATIONS STAFF
Overlook supports the Chief of Naval Operations N2/N6E Staff by providing a broad
range of programmatic and system engineering support, technical analyses,
assessments, and policy formulation support. Tasks include:
- Space Based PNT and GPS Program Support
- Navy GPS User Equipment Program
- Requirements development and acquisition oversight
- Future Space-Based PNT Needs
- NATO Navigation and Navwar issues
- Space System Vulnerability and Space Control
- Space vulnerability assessments
- Support to Navy Space Team
- Space control input to the Navy's Program Objectives Memorandum (POM)/budget cycle
Additionally, Overlook supports the Navy's Air Warfare (N98) staff with a liaison at Patuxent River, MD with Naval Air Systems Command's PMA209 Air Combat Electronics (ACE) and PMW/A170 GPS Air Navigation Team Space Based PNT and GPS Program Support team: Support provided includes:
- Common Avionics Requirements Support including GPS and Core Avionics
- Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) GPS requirements for PNT and Navwar
- NAE requirements in four PMA209 ACE capability management areas that include Mission Systems (MS), Communication & Airborne Networking (CAN), Safety & Flight Operations (SFO), and Navigation & Sensors (NS)
- Requirements development and acquisition oversight
- Monitor the PMA209 Avionics Integration and Fleet Avionics Sustainment & Support Team (FASST) activities
- Common Avionics input to the Navy's Program Objectives Memorandum (POM)/budget cycle
NATIONAL COORDINATION OFFICE FOR SPACE-BASED PNT
Overlook supports the legislative outreach efforts for the Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) National Coordination Office. Support includes:
- Tracking and reporting congressional appropriations, authorizations, and other legislation related to all PNT systems
- Formulating outreach materials that portray U.S. leadership in Global Navigation Satellite Service and interdependencies
- Engaging congressional staff members on policy issues that may adversely affect GPS services
- Organizing legislative outreach briefings and events on Capitol Hill to communicate the importance of civil GPS applications to U.S. national and economic infrastructure
- Preparing monthly PNT-related policy newsletters that are circulated to congressional staff members and the PNT interagency community
- Preparing and distributing daily media clips to the PNT interagency community
- Assisting development for the upgrade of www.GPS.gov
- A broad range of specialized programmatic and system engineering support
- Technical analyses and risk assessments in support of the Director of the National Coordination Office
DoD Executive Agent for Space Staff (SAF/SP) (formally National Security Space Office)
Overlook supports the DoD Executive Agent for Space and the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs. Activities include:
- Development of long-term space mission-area and cross-domain capability architectures
- Coordination and integration of space plans and assessments, and
- Analytic support using modeling and simulation tools like Systems Tool Kit (STK)