Mr. Eric Gakstatter
Principal, DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Eric Gakstatter is a Principal at Discovery Management Group LLC. He has spent 10 years leading teams in the design, marketing, and distribution of GPS hardware and software used for mapping and GIS. He currently consults with private companies, fed / state / local government as well as public / investor-owned utility companies on the implementation of GPS and GIS into their operations.
Eric has been involved in projects with and/or follow closely Trimble Navigation, Motorola, Garmin, Novatel, CSI Wireless, Leica Geosystems, Matsushita (Panasonic), Magellan Corp (was Thales Navigation), Rockwell Intl, SiRF, NemeriX, ATMEL, Maxim, Sony, Ublox, Navteq, TeleAtlas, Navcom (Deere), TomTom, ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo and others.
Eric is an editor for GPS World magazine...the leading world-wide trade publication.
He is a speaker at various GPS and GIS industry conferences.
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Employment History
- 2000 - Unspecified
- Principal, DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC
- 1987 - 2000
- Sr VP, Corvallis Microtechnology, Inc.
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Eric Gakstatter
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Will the FCC rule for LightSquared, the GPS Industry or neither?
August 22, 2011
In January 2011, the FCC granted a conditional waiver for LightSquared, a wireless broadband company, to proceed with rolling out its 4G LTE wireless wholesale business. Recently, LightSquared and the GPS industry exchanged taunts. LightSquared claimed that the GPS industry didn’t follow Department of Defense standards when designing GPS receivers and the GPS industry retorted that LightSquared is an incompatible spectrum neighbor. What happened?
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High-end GPS equipment (approx. 250,000 receivers) will become obsolete.
June 11, 2008
Codeless and Semi-Codeless Access to the Global Positioning | edocket.access.gpo.gov
The DoD's proposal would essentially obsolete legacy high-end GPS receivers after Dec. 31, 2020. The DoD estimates there are approximately 250,000 of these in use today. The replacement cost of each receiver is $10-20,000 each. This action introduces uncertainty into the high-precision GPS marketplace. Some manufacturers are still selling legacy products.
GLG Study Groups with Eric Gakstatter(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18316 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 9587 |
| GPS Experts | 226 |
| Product Lifecycle Management Software Experts | 170 |
| GLG Leaders in the Technology Council | 133 |
GLG Live Meetings with Eric Gakstatter(?)
Eric Gakstatter has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.
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