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Galileo Joint Undertaking Center Galileo will be Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. It will be interoperable with GPS and Glonass, the two other global satellite navigation systems. The Galileo Program is a joint initiative of the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide Europe with its own independent global civilian controlled satellite navigation system. The Galileo system will allow users to pinpoint their location at any time to a high degree of accuracy, and will ensure Europe’s competitiveness in a global market in satellite navigation products and services. When fully deployed, Galileo will consist of a constellation of 30 satellites in 3 orbits offering unprecedented accuracy and reliability of positioning. This allows for a range of many applications, products and services to be developed for use in transport, telecommunications, fisheries and agriculture, civil protection, building, construction etc. The Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) has been set up by the EC and ESA to manage the development phase of the Galileo Program, the main tasks of the GJU are: the Galileo Concession : the GJU is overseeing the establishment of a public private partnership between the public and the private sector in order to manage the Galileo Program and mobilize the required funds. A competitive tendering process is in use to select the private consortium that will be awarded the Galileo Concession Galileo in Orbit Validation : the GJU has to launch through ESA a first series of satellites to ensure the large-scale demonstration of the capabilities and reliability of the Galileo system. 6FP Galileo related activities : GJU also provides technical management to Galileo related projects launched under the EU’s 6th Framework Program for Research and Development (FP6). These projects, with a combined estimated budget of 100 million euro, will deliver many of the key technologies required for the implementation and operation of Galileo, and represent another opportunity for the private sector to participate in the development of Galileo. EGNOS Integration : The GJU is also responsible for managing the integration of EGNOS -the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, a system that enhances the data provided by GPS- into Galileo.
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