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Charting the right course is a constant challenge for any business, but it is challenging if the only people you get advice from are yourselves. Although we are the global leaders in Low-Frequency PNT solutions such as Loran, eLoran, and LFPhoenix ™ – technologies for which we have been passionate for decades – it helps to have objective and candid feedback about our business and technology strategies. We accomplish this through informed guidance from leaders who have demonstrated capabilities in starting and running businesses, are recognized subject matter experts from academia, industry, and government, are from diverse backgrounds, and have advanced the well-being of citizens and societies worldwide. We are honored to have access to the highest quality advice and insight that enhances our ability to help our customers succeed.

Andrew Bach

Global Financial Technologies Consultant

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Mr. Bach has 30+ years of experience specializing in network/telecommunications, security, and financial technologies. He has demonstrated expertise in leading strategic technological planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies. He is an accomplished leader who helps establish strategic direction, leads all aspects of technology development and implementation, and provides formal supervision and coaching for the Architectural, Security, and Infrastructure functions while setting the vision to inspire and drive improvements. Furthermore, Mr. Bach has a proven track record of providing strategic leadership and guidance for developing, integrating, maintaining, and customization of network/telecommunications and precision timing technologies across an enterprise. Currently, his focus includes developing highly available, ultra-high precision timing solutions that are traceable to sovereign authoritative sources for the financial industry.

Dr. Sherman Lo

Senior Research Engineer at Stanford University

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Dr. Lo has over 25 years of experience working in aviation navigation. He is currently a senior research engineer at the Stanford GPS Laboratory where his research focuses on navigation safety, security, and robustness. While at Stanford, he was Associate Investigator for the FAA evaluation of Enhanced Loran and Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) systems for aviation. His research has spanned many security and robustness topics, including aviation navigation with terrestrial signals, GNSS spoof detection, UAV localization of GNSS jamming, and GNSS for railways and marine tracking. He has over 100 conference, 20 journal, and 14 magazine publications, and eight issued US patents. Sherman is dedicated to secure and well-thought use of navigation technologies. He has taught several classes at Stanford University, and has presented at many invited seminars around the world.

Sherman co-founded two startups focused on navigation security and served as technical advisor to several other navigation companies. He served on the Board of the International Loran Association; Technical Advisory Board, Crossrate Technology (now owned by UrsaNav); and Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Navigation (Royal Institute of Navigation). For his work and efforts, he has received the Institute of Navigation (ION) Early Achievement Award (2005), the International Loran Association (ILA) President’s Award (2003) and Medal of Merit (2009), the Royal Institute of Navigation Michael Richey Medal best paper (2011), and the GPS World Leadership Award (2014).

Dr. Gene H. McCall

Independent Military Professional

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Dr. McCall’s illustrious career includes positions such as Chief Scientist with Air Force Space Command, leader of the Laser Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, consultant to the Department of Energy and Defense Science Board, and Chairman of the Technology Assistance Panel for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. He is a visiting professor of physics at Imperial College (London), Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation.

At Los Alamos he was one of the founders of the Inertial Fusion Program, where he and a small group of collaborators designed and built the first high power Nd:Glass laser to be used for fusion research. Dr. McCall was awarded the prestigious E. O. Lawrence Award for contributions to National Security. He has also received Distinguished Performance Awards from the Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Dr. McCall is an instrument-rated pilot, has authored approximately 100 scientific papers, and holds four patents.

Dr. Wouter Pelgrum

Principal Navigation Engineer at Blue Origin

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Dr. Wouter Pelgrum has over two decades of experience in electronic navigation with systems such as eLoran, GNSS, eDME, and modalities including timing, indoor, pedestrian, automotive, maritime, aviation, and space.

Currently Wouter is a Principal Navigation Engineer at Blue Origin where he leads a team of navigation experts towards the research, implementation, validation, and verification of various navigation solutions used for the company’s space missions.

Before Blue Origin, Wouter was a Senior Director from 2016-2020 at the Silicon Valley startup NextNav, spearheading the engineering of timing, indoor, pedestrian, automotive, and drone navigation and precision transmitter calibration and synchronization, based on NextNav’s TerraPoiNT radionavigation signal.

From 2009-2016, Wouter taught and researched electronic navigation topics as a tenured associate professor at Ohio University. Research projects included the development and flight-testing of an eDME system as a candidate solution for FAAs Alternative Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) program, study of the impact of ionosphere scintillation on GNSS signal propagation for AFOSR, and VLF and LF navigation for DARPA’s Spherics-Based Underground Positioning (S-BUG) program.

Wouter worked on eLoran from 2001 through 2008, first as an employee of Reelektronika B.V. and later as a consultant. Focus areas included the development of high-performance LF H-field antennas, including novel calibration techniques and receiver processing, and the development and field-testing of temporal and spatial corrections and processing for high-precision maritime Harbor Entrance and Approach (HEA) procedures.

Wouter received his Ph.D. from Delft University of Technologies, the Netherlands, for his dissertation titled “New Potential of Low-Frequency Radionavigation in the 21^st Century.”

Logan Scott

Logan Scott Consulting

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Logan Scott has over 35 years of military and civil GPS systems engineering experience. He is a consultant specializing in radio frequency signal processing and waveform design. At Texas Instruments, he pioneered approaches for building high-performance, jamming-resistant digital receivers.

At Omnipoint (now T-Mobile), he developed spectrum sharing techniques that led to a Pioneer’s preference award from the FCC. He is a co-founder of Lonestar Aerospace, an advanced decision analytics company located in Texas.

Logan has been an active advocate for improved civil GPS location assurance through test based GPS receiver certification, crowdsourced jammer detection and location, and, by adding robust signal authentication features to civil GPS signals.

Logan is a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation and a Senior Member of IEEE. In 2018 he received the GPS World Signals award. He holds 42 US patents.