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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
What3words: The app that can save your life – BBC News
Blog Editor's Note: This is a great example of making a system more resilient with a better user interface. As a helicopter pilot, at every new duty station it would take me several weeks to memorize the latitude and longitude of a new base so I could program the...
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GNSS Threat Monitoring and Reporting: Past, Present, and a Proposed Future
Blog Editor's Note: Great effort and expense is taken to put satellites in space and transmit quality GNSS signals. Yet when these signals arrive on Earth, too often they are made useless by interference, or worse, corrupted into hazardously misleading information. ...
GPS Jamming and Spoofing Reported at Port of Shanghai – Maritime Executive
Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation GPS Jamming and Spoofing Reported at Port of Shanghai BY DANA GOWARD 2019-08-13 18:40:25 Reports have been filtering through the maritime community over the last month about strange AIS and GPS readings...
RNT Foundation Announces New Board of Directors
Image: New board members Jeff Hathaway and Pauline Cook join President Dana A. Goward recognizing Senators Cruz and Markey for their work on and passage of the National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2018. The Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation...
Navigation War in Persian Gulf Hits the News
Image: Iranian patrol boat and British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero: Associated Press Blog Editor's Note: Below are a warning published by the US Maritime Administration, and a press report that quotes an unnamed US defense official. Long time readers will discern...
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Disruption of GPS systems at Ben Gurion Airport resolved after 2 months – Times of Israel
Image: Aircraft taking off Ben Gurion Airport Nov 2018 - Flash90 Blog Editor's Note: While it seems like two months is a long time to have this problem, it is good to remember that it took US officials three months to resolve the first problem at Newark International...
UK to Protect Power Grid w/ GNSS, eLoran, Other Timing Sources
Electrical grid fire in underground, Central London, 2015: Image Credit Merlin Fox Blog editor's note: Systems engineering calls for multiple sources of critical data and other inputs to ensure there are no single points of failure. The below article indicates that...
Space is Dangerous – Watch Satellite’s Last Moments
Blog editor's note: The below item isn't in the center or our normal "PNT lane." Even if a GPS/GNSS satellite were to suffer the same fate, the incident would likely not have much impact to service from the constellation. This article does remind us, though, that...
Galileo Failure: “Who relies on a single system is stupid” – Der Spiegel
Blog Editor's Note: The below article is an interview with Professor David Last by the popular German media outlet "Der Spiegel." Prof. Last is a member of the RNT Foundation's International Advisory Council. Translation courtesy of Chrome "translate this page."...
