Lisa Beaty, Executive Director of the (US) Institute of Navigation announces with sincere regret that the Institute of Navigation (ION) Military Division must cancel this year’s Joint Navigation Conference (JNC) in Orlando, Florida, originally scheduled for 10th to 13th June 2013.

Apparently this decision has not been taken lightly, but due to the Department of Defense recent policies detailing actions to be taken to prepare for drastic budget cuts, the curtailment of travel, fallout from a scandal with GSA conferences this past year, the current sequestration, and possible furloughs for federal employees, it is no longer possible for ION to ensure the JNC will be
able to maintain a high quality technical program and sufficient networking opportunities that makes the JNC so valuable to Department of Defense / Department of Homeland Security employees and their supporting organizations.