Royal Institute of Navigation posts resilient PNT tools - Feedback welcome

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What’s New: The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) has posted a series of tools to help explain PNT and the need for resilience to those outside the community, and to help organizations evaluate their readiness for GNSS disruptions. They are available from the RIN’s Resilient PNT Portal.

PNT Explainer
Best Practices “placemat”
PNT Resilience Checklist for organizations

The RIN recommends those in the PNT community working with customers, suppliers, and partners use these as tools for engagement with a PNT expert as a “guiding hand.”

Why It’s Important: PNT issues, especially regarding resilience, are not well understood by most. Communicating challenges, the need for awareness, and the need to prepare can be difficult. These tools can be a great help.

What Else to Know:

The tools were premiered at the RIN’s annual UK PNT Leadership Seminar on the 20th of November.
The new UK Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, Lord Tony Vallance, opened the seminar and praised the RIN for this work.
As a “learned society,” the RIN has significant influence on government policy and direction.
The RIN sees these as a “phase 1 release.” Feedback on the tools is encouraged and should be sent to [email protected] The RIN team is eager to know what works, what could be improved, etc.