Quantic Global Positioning System Timing Receiver Live Static Test
Abstract:
The GPS Program Offices, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, has established a Center of Expertise COE comprised of several agencies, each providing unique GPS test capabilities for the purpose of developing a Commercial Receiver Test Program CRTP. The Responsible Test Organization RTO for the COE is the 746th Test Group, 46th Guidance Test Squadron, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The Naval Research Laboratory NRL has been designed as a COE with the responsibility of testing the time output characteristics and accuracy of the commercial receivers. The NRL clock testing facility has time traceable to the U.S. Naval Observatory and the procedure used are taken from the CORE INSGREGI TEST PLAN prepared by RTO.