Company Overview
Excellence in all areas of satellite navigation, best benefits for our customers, sustainable growth for the company and our employees being proud to work for IFEN. Our visions are challenging, but pushing the boundary is our self-image.
Scope
IFEN was founded in 1998 with the clear objective to work in the field of satellite navigation. IFEN was starting with service contracts on EGNOS development, later also on Galileo.
Since 2003, IFEN is also working on commercial navigation products, with the first product available in 2007.
Today IFEN is positioned as a provider of leading-edge software and hardware COTS products for satellite navigation. The primary products are the NavX® family of GNSS test solutions and the GSPF® general simulation and data processing framework.
The scope of activities for service contracts covers GNSS system studies and analysis, development of algorithms, software and facilities, even up to turnkey systems like the Galileo test range GATE.
Mission
IFEN is driven by several mission objectives, visions and values.
The core mission is to achieve excellence in satellite navigation for all our work, whether products or services.
Therefore, IFEN is working at the edge of navigation and is committed to push the boundary for leading edge products and solutions beyond the current state-of-the-art.
Providing our customers with future-proof and innovative solutions is our motivation.
Driven by employees being proud to work for IFEN, enabling them to realize their visions, bringing dreams to reality, thus generating full employees' satisfaction and success.
History
- Founded in 1998 as technology spin-off
- First ESA prime contract awarded to IFEN in 2001
- Due to continuous growth, shift of IFEN premises to the current headquarter in Poing, Germany in 2001
- First DLR prime contract awarded to IFEN in 2002
- First GSA (GJU) contract awarded to IFEN in 2005
- In 2007, first product exhibition at the ION
- In 2008, extension of headquarter space to cover product integration and test facilities
- Increase of workforce by 20% in 2009 up to around 50 employees
Highlights
- First company in Europe working since 1999 on ground based integrity monitoring for regional augmentation (EGNOS)
- Design & development and operation of the first Galileo test range in Berchtesgaden starting 2002 as prime contractor
- Invention of Memory Codes for Galileo in 2003
- Provider of verification receiver for Galileo payload test system in 2008
- Provider of UERE monitoring facility for Galileo in 2009
- With the NavX®-NCS Professional, the first GNSS signal generator in the world is available, capable of simulating GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, QZSS and SBAS simultaneously in one simulator