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  • Enhanced NAVCEN website coming, new URLs provided

    Enhanced NAVCEN website coming, new URLs provided

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    The U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN) will transition to a new and enhanced website in the first quarter of this year. The actual transition date has yet to be determined.

    As part of the transition, the URLs will be updated across the site, including URLs linked to PDFs. URLs from the legacy site will no longer work. Any bookmarked URLs or URLs used in automatic downloading of data or products will need to be updated.

    “We have identified the below URLs as essential to your continued business,” reports Rick Hamilton, CGSIC Executive Secretariat, in a . “Please keep in mind, that while we are sending the URLs in advance, they will not be active until we launch the new website. Once the new website goes live, your URLs will be available for re-bookmarking.”

    GPS Almanacs

    Current URLs: https://navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=gpsAlmanacs

    Replacement: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps-nanus-almanacs-opsadvisories-sof

    GPS NANUs

    Current URLs: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=currentNanus

    Replacement: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/sites/default/files/gps/nanu/current_nanu.nnu

    GPS Constellation Status

    Current URLs: https://navcen.uscg.gov/?Do=constellationStatus

    Replacement: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps-constellation

    NAVCEN will contact users with a launch date for the new website.

    The NAVCEN team can be reached at its help address.

  • 61st CGSIC meeting scheduled for Sept. 21

    61st CGSIC meeting scheduled for Sept. 21

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    The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN) will hold the 61st meeting of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) on Sept. 20-21.

    The meeting will be conducted at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, in conjunction with the Institute of Navigation’s 2021 ION GNSS+ conference.

    The 61st CGSIC meeting will also be broadcast live online to provide a virtual option. This is a unique opportunity for anyone in the world with access to a computer to attend these public meetings of the U.S. Civil GPS program. CGSIC meetings are free and open to the public.

    The three subcommittees of the CGSIC will meet on Sept. 20: Timing; International Information; and Surveying, Mapping, and Geosciences.

    Summaries of the subcommittee meetings will be presented to the CGSIC plenary session Sept. 21 with a keynote address by Juliana Blackwell, director of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS).

    The CGSIC agenda in development can be found on the CGSIC section of GPS.gov.

  • US Coast Guard adds security to website

    The Coast Guard Navigation Center has implemented a small but important change to its website address. It is now https://www.navcen.uscg.gov, instead of http://www.navcen.uscg.gov.

    The change provides a secure, encrypted connection between browsers or other tools connecting to the Navigation Center website. It also provides authentication that you are unquestionably connecting to the Navigation Center website.

    This change is a result of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-15-13, Policy to Require Secure Connections across Federal Websites and Web Services, which requires that all publicly accessible federal websites and web services only provide service through a secure connection (HTTPS instead of HTTP).

    Address any questions to the Navigation Center’s Web Services team via the Contact Us page.