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Eric Gakstatter

Eric Gakstatter, Principal, Discovery Management Group, Llc Principal
Discovery Management Group, Llc
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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. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2000 - present Principal
Discovery Management Group, Llc
1987 - 2000 Sr VP
Corvallis Microtechnology, Inc.

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High-end GPS equipment (approx. 250,000 receivers) will become obsolete. | 06-11-2008
Analysis of: Codeless and Semi-Codeless Access to the Global Positioning | edocket.access.gpo.gov
Author: Eric Gakstatter, Principal, Discovery Management Group, Llc

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...

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