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Protect the Frequencies – By preventing interference
Toughen Receivers – With readily available technology
Augment Services – With difficult to disrupt terrestrial signals
Our Challenge
Much of the world depends upon satellite systems for precise navigation and timing services. These are exceptionally accurate and dependable, yet GPS/GNSS jamming, spoofing, and other forms of interference appear to be growing in frequency and severity. Neither are space systems immune to severe space weather or cyber-attack. This has the potential for devastating effects on our lives and economic activity.
From Our Blog
Public-private partnership to launch eLORAN technology to back-up and accompany GPS – Intelligent Aerospace
Loran Tower Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Notes: Another chapter in the on-going saga of GPS backups and eLoran. The original version of the article can be read as Hellen Systems already having a partnership in place with the federal government. They have...
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BeiDou a threat to the West, but perhaps not individuals – GPS World
Image: Launch of 55th BeiDou Satellite courtesy of BeiDou.gov.cn Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is President of the RNT Foundation. Our friend Prof. Todd Humphreys at Univ. Texas, Austin was one of the industry experts consulted for this story....
White House Council Seeks Input on Plan to Invest in Alternatives to GPS – Nextgov
Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: There are a number of good things about this year's Executive Order (EO) on responsible use of PNT. This effort by OSTP is one of them. We do wish, though, that, in addition to this laudatory R&D effort, the executive...
How Vulnerable Is G.P.S.? – The New Yorker
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A great article by Greg Milner, author of "Pinpoint - How GPS is changing technology, culture, and our minds." Long time RNTF members will recall that Greg spoke at our 2016 annual meeting at the US Naval Observatory just after...
Now Operational, BeiDou Could Conceal Cybersecurity Threat – Inside GNSS (or not)
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: I posted this item last week fairly soon after first seeing it. Having had more time to think about this, and discussing it with a variety of satnav experts in the US and elsewhere, I am re-writing my notes. I now have to...
