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USCG Navigation Center(NAVCEN) is the US Coast Guard's center for electronic navigation operations and systems analysis support. The center is located in Alexandria, VA collocated with the USCG Telecommunications and Information Systems Command (TISCOM). The Navigation Center is staffed by officers and civilian members of the Coast Guard specializing in electrical engineering, systems analysis, information systems. Enlisted members specialties include Operations Specialists, Electronics Technicians, Boatswains mates, Yeoman, and Storekeepers.

NAVCEN responsibilities include the support and operation of the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), and Electronic Tracking Systems including the US Inland River Vessel Movement systems, Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT), and the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS). NAVCEN also provides systems analysis and civil user interface for the Global Positioning System (GPS).

NAVCEN has recently relinquished a major mission area of operation in the Long Range Navigation(LORAN) system. On February 8 2010 the US Coast Guard ceased operations LORAN in the United States. It remains operating and monitoring the Russian American and Canadian American LORAN chains per international agreement.