UrsaNav, Incorporated
UrsaNav is committed to improving the operational capabilities of our clients and providing exceptional value to the world wide users of our technology. As the world’s leading supplier of Low Frequency (LF) Complementary Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions and associated professional services, we strive every day to make the world a safer and more prosperous place. UrsaNav is globally known and respected as the subject matter experts, industry leaders, makers of the market, and even the most seasoned team for Low-Frequency PNT solutions.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Environmental
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 2004
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
Our Vision
- Provide solutions that create resiliency in the world’s critical transportation, telecommunications, electricity, and financial infrastructure;
- Create empowered, entrepreneurial-minded teams who turn problems into solutions and ideas into products;
- Invest in our clients, our company, and, most importantly, ourselves; and
- Deliver uncompromising quality in a fun, friendly, and respectful environment.
Our Values
- We are Paid, Professional Adults who want to make the world a safer place;
- We respect and admire creativity coupled with execution;
- The best solutions come from a free marketplace of ideas and concepts;
- We only succeed when the team succeeds as a whole;
- We want to have fun – we work hard and play hard; and
- We understand that honesty and integrity are very difficult to regain once they are traded away.
Behind the Bear
The name UrsaNav and our corresponding logo, which originated from the constellation Ursa Major (“The Bear”), signifies our ever-expanding scope and quest to press forward beyond physical and intellectual boundaries—just as the stars are numberless in the sky.
Pioneering New Frontiers
To say UrsaNav pioneers new frontiers is an understatement. Conceiving of innovative solutions to complex problems is one of our primary strengths. The subject matter experts at UrsaNav design inventive and quick turn-around solutions to custom requirements on a daily basis; this is the backbone of the company.
What’s in a name?
We are always asked how we came to name our company “UrsaNav”. The context of ‘Nav’ originates from our start as primarily a navigation company. Although we have evolved into a Positioning, Navigation, and Timing company, our heritage is rooted in all things navigation. Additionally, ‘Ursa’ was derived from the famous constellation Ursa Major, also known as “The Bear” and “The Big Dipper”.
Trusted worldwide.
As the world’s longest standing and leading supplier of Low Frequency PNT technology and systems, it should not be surprising that our staff has been involved in the design and implementation of nearly every Loran-C and eLoran site built worldwide since the early 1970’s. This includes transmitting sites, monitor and reference station sites, and control centers.
We are committed to the evolution of the very technology that has shaped our corporate lineage. While remaining true to our roots, we continually invest in new service provider and end user technology. We speak Loran-C, Loran-D, Chayka, LFPhoenix™, and more.
We are the only company that has been continually involved in Loran and eLoran standards bodies, including the RTCM, IALA, IMO, and SAE International.
Why UrsaNav?
UrsaNav is globally known and respected as the subject matter experts, industry leaders, makers of the market, and even the most seasoned team for Low-Frequency PNT solutions. We like to simply say… the numbers tell our story.
Our personnel have considerable experience in Low Frequency program management, operations, engineering, training, depot-level, and life-cycle support. Our expertise includes OMEGA; Loran-C; Loran-D; Enhanced Loran (eLoran); LFPhoenix™; Maritime, Nationwide, and High-Accuracy DGPS; and LF and VLF broadcast solutions.
If you are considering a new or upgraded Low-Frequency PNT solution, we can provide every aspect of the provider or user experience, from Legacy System Transformation through advanced LFPhoenix™ systems.
- Significant experience with all models of Tube-Type Transmitters (TTX), government Solid-State Transmitters (SSX), commercial SSX (Accufix 6500), new SSX (NSSX) (Accufix 7500), and Nautel NL Series Loran transmitters.
- Provided technology for, and was part of the East Coast Loran Modernization Program (Caribou, ME; Nantucket, MA; Carolina Beach, NC; Jupiter, FL; Baudette, MN).
- Provided technology for, and was part of the FAA’s Mid-Continent Expansion Program (Havre, MT; Gillette, WY; Las Cruces, NM; Boise City, OK; TRACEN Petaluma, CA.)
- Provided technology for, and was part of the SSX Installation Program (Seneca, NY; Malone, FL; Grangeville, LA; Raymondville, TX; Port Hardy, BC).
- Provided technology for, and was part of the Canadian SSX Modernization Program (Fox Harbour, NL; Comfort Cove, NL; Cape Race, NL).
- Modernized and upgraded 14 LORSTAs in the United States, Italy, Guam, and Canada.
- Performed new ground-up installations at eight Loran Stations (LORSTAs).
- Successfully completed “side-by-side” equipment replacements at six LORSTAs.
- Relocated LORSTA Yap to Guam.
- Developed the Control Center, Monitor Site, and LORSTA upgrades for the North American Loran system (29 LORSTAs; 30 Monitor Sites; five Control Centers; Training Center, California; Navigation Center, Virginia; Navigation Center, California; Supply Center, Maryland; and Loran Support Unit, New Jersey).
- First Program Manager for Congressionally Mandated $160+M Loran Modernization and Upgrade Program – developed the road map for the Program; designed and developed all of the technology upgrades for the Program.
- Modernized, upgraded, repurposed, relocated and/or combined six Control Sites into two.
- Conducted the first Eurofix tests in the United States.
- Co-developed the first Loran Data Channel techniques.
- Managed the Timing and Frequency Equipment development program that became a contract with Timing Solutions Corporation (subsequently Symmetricom and Microsemi).
- Managed the Locus LAD LRS IIID receiver development program. Years later, purchased the assets of Locus, Inc.
- Developed the first eLoran timing receiver to meet stringent telecommunications requirements.
- Extensive experience with Far East Radio Navigation Service (FERNS) and former Northern European Loran System (NELS).
- Experience with Chinese Loran and Russian Chayka stations.
- Designed, developed, installed, and tested an eLoran Transmission system at a temporary location near Incheon, ROK.
We trace our Loran roots back to the early 1970’s. We have the most experience and expertise, both in the past and today. Recent entrants, or re-entrants, into the Loran market have web sites that repost articles and news developed by others, tout expertise in other markets, or claim unproven technology. UrsaNav has been fully engaged in remaking the global markets for Loran since the U.S. Government terminated its Loran-C program in 2010 and NELS terminated most of its operations in 2015.
We are committed to improving the operational capabilities of our signal provider and end-user customers. We excel at bringing all the resources together in a collaborative fashion: customers, users, vendors, and academia. We ensure that we approach every professional undertaking with the goal of turning problems into solutions and ideas into execution. We deliver an uncompromising level of product and services quality.
Our company is not just a provider of technological solutions. UrsaNav is a global partner for governments, federal and military, and critical infrastructure providers looking to attain the type of stability and accuracy needed to keep navigation and timing on track.
Quality Assurance Commitment
At UrsaNav, we strive to satisfy our customers’ needs as they define them and achieve their expectations while delivering value, before, during and after the sale. This is accomplished by using ISO 9001:2015-registered and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) processes to coordinate activities that direct and control the performance of our organization.
The UrsaNav Team is committed to providing the highest quality products and services. A culture of quality is established by continuously seeking the highest levels of customer satisfaction. By performing planned and systematic actions, customers are afforded the confidence that our processes and product lines satisfy their requirements for quality.
It means that whether UrsaNav is providing products or services, our approach is one of continuous process improvement. The goal is to perform the tasking right the first time—and on-time and within budget.
UrsaNav recognizes that customer satisfaction directly impacts reputation and is a determining factor of the results and achievement of our Quality Assurance Commitment. We are happy to put you in contact with our product and services customers to get first-hand validation of our Quality claim.
We combine the right people, products, vendors, and customers to deliver effective, efficient, economical, and sustainable Low Frequency ecosystems of Loran, eLoran, or LFPhoenix™ Positioning, Navigation & Timing (PNT), data, frequency, and azimuth solutions.
Global Reach
Barriers to international trade are based on the easy and effective provision of wide-area PNT, influencing globalization in every field. It’s now possible to clearly communicate with people and organizations across the globe in a matter of seconds.
As a focused provider of Positioning, Navigation & Timing (PNT) solutions for an array of global clients in different verticals, UrsaNav understands the importance of being able to navigate an increasingly connected world.
On a global scale, governmental units need to have a precise positioning tool so that they can ensure the accuracy of their operations. Whether it’s a military branch conducting field operations or an infrastructural department that has to keep accurate timing for civil systems, it’s critical that systems are working properly.
UrsaNav’s global reach has allowed us to help clients everywhere ensure that they have a stable, dependable system for PNT.
Some of our global clients have included:
- The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- The General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland (GLAs)
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Russia
- India
- Denmark, France, Germany, and Norway
- The Netherlands
- Transport Canada
With a list of customers that spans multiple continents, UrsaNav is the name to know when it comes to global PNT solutions that can keep governments up and running and ensure that municipal infrastructure is working the way that it needs to be, no matter where these services are required.