John Betz

John W. Betz is a Fellow of The MITRE Corporation.

Betz developed the binary offset carrier modulation and participated in the design of modernized signals including GPS M code and L1C. He contributed to aspects of receiver processing for modernized signals and a range of systems engineering activities in support of GPS modernization.

He was co-recipient of the ION’s Samuel M. Burka Award in 2001, and in 2004 received the U.S. State Department Superior Honor Award for work on the U.S./E.U. negotiations on GPS and Galileo. He is a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and was named a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation in 2006.

Betz received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Betz is a member of the Inside GNSS Editorial Advisory Council.