GPS Innovation Alliance

“The alliance delegated the control over management duties to a management company, mike international, llc.”

“The Bylaws provide for two classes of members: Principal Members and Regular Members. The members are corporations or other entities; the directors are individuals named by the members. (Each Principal Member names two individuals as Board members; the entire class of Regular Members names a total of two Board members.) When the Alliance takes action that requires the approval of both the members and the Board under the governance documents (e.g., amendment of the Articles of Incorporation), evidence of approval by both the members and the Board is required.”

“The form 990 is prepared by the alliance's accountant in consultation with the alliance's executive director and then circulated to the alliance's officers(each of whom is a member of the alliance's board of directors) for review.”

“The alliance bylaws provides that any member may recuse himself from participation in any specific alliance activities and/or issue in which a conflict of interest arise. In addition, the board of directors is small and members work closely together and would be aware of many conlicts of interest. The board of directors, upon information made known to it by any source, may also require recusal on specific issues or specific activities by any member. We have never had an instance where such conflicts have been identified or recusal has been required.”

“The executive committee of the alliance, all of whom were independent board members, reviewed and approved the compensation of the executive director whose compensation remained at the fixed level of $150,000 previously approved by the executive committee when the alliance was formed.”

“Any relevant documents such as governing documents, financial statements, conflict of interest policy, expense reporting, and tax related filings such as form 990 are available at any time upon request to our office for discussion and review.”

“The year 2014 brought with it continued issues and challenges to protecting and preserving the stable and quiet radio spectrum environment in which GPS and other satellite navigation services operate. In addition, we faced several issues of working to ensure the compatibility of new and emerging satellite and wireless services with GPS and satellite navigation both in the US and to a growing degree outside of the US. GPSIA maintained an ongoing dialogue with the US Government on the evolution of the management and regulatory structure governing GPS , as well as on technical aspects of designing and implementing new signal structures for GPS satellite signals. - GPSIA participated in workshops sponsored by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Communications aimed at investigating the potential for GPS signals to operate in environments with various types of signals and wireless services in radio frequency spectrum bands adjacent to the spectrum frequency bands allocated to GPS and other satellite navigations services. In the Congressional and legislative areas, activities during 2014 included monitoring federal and state legislative and regulatory policies related to Global Positioning Systems ("GPS"), including bills before the US House and Senate, state legislative bodies, and proceedings at all relevant federal and state agencies. Also during 2014, the GPSIA met with policy makers to provide educational information and advocate for the GPS industry and user community. - Researched and tracked the progress of geolocation privacy legislation. - Analyzed funding levels for GPS programs in the FY 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations bill. - Analyzed funding levels for GPS programs in the FY 2015 Department of Transportation Appropriations bill. - Monitored GPS related provisions in the FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill. - Educated Congressional offices regarding GPS spectrum issues and advocated for spectrum policies that would best support the long-term success of GPS. - Monitored Congressional efforts to reauthorize the Telecommunications Act and participated in a House Energy and Commerce Committee whitepaper process calling for public comments on possible issues to be included in a new law. As a consequence of the continuing regulatory issues related to US spectrum management policy via the FCC and other Federal agencies, USGIC engaged in a larger effort than previously encountered to monitor these developments and prepare specialized filings within these agencies On the international front, two prominent issues continue to require attention and effort from GPSIA, each with the potential to introduce interference to the reception of GPS signals in critical safety of life applications such as air traffic management, and along the entire range of civilian and commercial applications. The first of these is an ongoing proposal in Europe to allow the deployment and use of outdoor and indoor pesudolites (substitute land-based transmitters that mimic actual GPS or other navigation satellites). Uncontrolled use of pseudolites can, in effect, introduce what appear to be false GPS signals to GPS receivers in use, and lead to erroneous position information. The signals from pseudolites can also, in some circumstances jam or prevent reception of legitimate GPS signals. To address this issue, USGIC has maintained a constructive dialogue with the European Commission and other European regulatory agencies of our concerns, and have proposed that any such pseudolites use signals in radio spectrum that is distinct and separate from the L-band spectrum currently used by GPS. In 2014 we saw significant progress in working with European authorities to prevent the introduction of in-band commercial pseudolites that would be problematic for satellite navigation systems such as GPS and the European Galileo system. A second source of concern over interference to GPS signals in the international arena arose from a propos”

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