The Institute of Navigation Employee Directory
Industry AssociationsVirginia, United States11-50 Employees
The Institute of Navigation (ION) is a nonprofit professional association based in Manassas, Virginia, focused on advancing the art and science of positioning, navigation, and timing. It serves professionals in the PNT field and facilitates knowledge exchange through conferences and scholarly publication. ION sponsors a suite of annual meetings—including an International Technical Meeting co-located with the Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, IEEE/ION PLANS, ION Pacific PNT, the Joint Navigation Conference, and ION GNSS+—that host technical paper presentations and peer discussions. The organization also oversees NAVIGATION, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that covers the theory, methods, and technologies related to navigation across air, sea, land, and space, including position, velocity, attitude, and time estimation. Recent activity includes the January 2025 announcement of inductees to its Fellows at the ITM/PTTI 2025 event in Long Beach, California, illustrating ongoing recognition and professional development within the field.