Joint Navigation Conference (JNC)

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns.

New Dates: 9/8-9/11/2020

The Military Division of the Institute of Navigation will host the 2020 Joint Navigation Conference (JNC 2020) for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

The theme of this year’s conference will be: Enhancing Dominance and Resilience for Warfighting and Homeland Security PNT.

JNC is the largest U.S. military Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) conference of the year with joint service and government participation. The event focuses on technical advances in PNT with emphasis on joint development, test and support of affordable PNT systems, logistics and integration. From an operational perspective the conference will focus on advances in battlefield applications of GPS; critical strengths and weaknesses of field navigation devices; warfighter PNT requirements and solutions; and navigation warfare.

FOUO U.S. only conference attendance (June 1-3), held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, will be screened by the Joint Navigation Warfare Center and will be restricted to US only. The classified session, held at AFIT, will have US only Secret Clearance access (June 4). The exhibit hall (June 2-3) will be open to all conference participants, exhibiting organizations, their employees and related organizations. All materials displayed in the exhibit hall shall be publically releasable (Distribution A).

FOUO U.S. sessions (June 1-3) will be held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, in Covington, Kentucky. The classified session (June 4) will be held at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio.