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Rockwell Collins’ new MicroDAGR GPS receiver for soldiers features latest commercial applications in a secure, lightweight system

Sick of packing around 2 lbs of bigger-than-a-breadbox PLGR? Monochromatic DAGR display making you long for your color Garmin ETrex? Jonesing for that touch-screen interface of your iPhone or Garmin Oregon? Well wait no more, warfighters, for Rockwell Collins has answered your prayers with the 'MicroDAGR'!

Supposedly far smaller than the DAGR, this unit features color display, touchscreen interface, compact form factor allowing wear on a lanyard or even your wrist -- and best of all, while still being as small or smaller than those illicit commercial GPS receivers that get snuck out into the field -- MicroDAGR (when keyed) still has all the anti-spoofing secure GPS reception of its bigger (DAGR) and older (PLGR) brothers.

Hopefully, once fielded in numbers, the use of non-secure civilian GPS in what might turn out to be life or death situations will diminish to zip as the "but Sarge...the issue stuff is just too **** big and heavy..." excuse becomes a lie.

RWC's press-release is a little vague (why specifically mention L1 ??) and there's no word whether it will still interface to the various Situational Awareness (SA) systems etc. out there -- but for the individual soldier-level deployment it seems like they not only narrowed the gap between military and civilian equipment but leaped a decent bound beyond it. I'd like to try one in some real-world environments before I get too excited about it, but until then...good job, Rockwell-Collins!