Identifying PNT Centers of Activity in Support of a National PNT Architecture

The US Government has developed a national architecture for PNT, which is documented through a set of recommendations in the National PNT Architecture Final Report [1]. This paper addresses one of those recommendations, namely to identify and leverage centers of excellence for PNT phenomenology and applications (Recommendation #18). Copyright © 2011 Advanced Research Corporation, All Rights Reserved Specifically this paper tackles the question of how to identify which organizations are active in the various application areas today. It also addresses the challenge of developing a methodology for identifying centers that can adapt to passing time. It devises an approach for identifying these centers of activity that is agile and not too structured. The paper also explores the various challenges associated with identifying centers of activity for the hundreds of PNT applications in use today, and describes approaches to develop a methodology to meet all these challenges. It presents novel ways to identify the centers using an on-line web database, search queries, and display features to provide an agile, adaptive way to reveal the centers of activity for any application or phenomenology set.