John Lavrakas

John W. Lavrakas is president of Advanced Research Corporation, providing consulting and research & development services on satellite navigation.

He has spent 29 years involved with GPS, supporting the development of the GPS Control Segment, GPS user equipment for military range applications, development of GPS performance analysis capabilities, and developing and marketing GPS-based commercial asset location systems.

Lavrakas received his bachelor’s and masters degrees in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and Claremont Graduate University, respectively.