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Colonel John E. Dukes Jr. is currently assigned to the Pentagon under the Secretary of the Air Force Space Acquisitions and Integration Directorate (SAF/SQ) as the Deputy Director of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Coordination Office.

Harold W. Martin III, a member of the Senior Executive Service from the Department of Transportation, is the Director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT).

To provide the current date, the Global Positioning System (GPS) keeps an internal count of the number of weeks since January 5, 1980. The main civil GPS signal (C/A code) broadcasts the GPS week number using a 10-bit code with a maximum value of 1,023 weeks.

The Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States of America today announced that they had reached a common understanding of intellectual property rights related to the Global Positioning System (GPS) and will work together to address broader global navigation satellite systems' intelle

Working Group 1 met on December 13-14, 2006, in Yaroslavl, Russia, and discussed a range of issues. This was the third meeting of the working group. The meeting was highly successful and resolved many questions regarding interoperability and compatibility between the GPS and GLONASS systems.

Delegations of the United States and the Russian Federation met in Washington D.C. on December 9-10, 2004, to continue discussions on matters relating to GPS and GLONASS cooperation.

Since 2018, the United States of America and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been discussing cooperation on the matters of compatibility, interoperability and transparency related to civil satellite navigation consistent with the mutual interests of both countries.