If GPS Fails, National Security is at Risk – NDIA Podcast

October 31, 2025

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What’s new: A podcast by the National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) Emerging Technologies Institute.

Why it’s important: NDIA has 1,700 corporate and 66,500 individual members, all of whom are concerned about national security. 

What else to know:

  • NDIA and the RNT Foundation are both non-partisan, non-profit, educational 501(c)3 nonprofits.
  • RNT Foundation is the lead sponsor for a forthcoming NDIA ETI paper about how commercially provided PNT can support the Department of Defense/War.

 

Join Dr. Arun Seraphin for a conversation with Dana Goward, President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. Goward shares insights into the critical vulnerabilities of GPS and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies, highlighting the challenges facing U.S. national security. The discussion covers topics such as international PNT strategies and technological alternatives, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) like China’s BeiDou and Russia’s GLONASS, as well as Europe’s Galileo network. The conversation also examines defense infrastructure resilience, potential GPS disruption risks, and the urgent need for a comprehensive national PNT architecture that can protect against electronic warfare and cyber threats.

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