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What’s new: The annual Assured PNT Summit is happening in DC next week. A few seats are still available.
Why it’s important: It is a great opportunity to hear from senior defense and transportation leaders in government about PNT issues.
What else to know:
- Government employees may attend without charge
- RNT Foundation President Dana A. Goward will be the moderator again this year.
Assured PNT Summit to Focus on Resilience, Governance and the Future of National PNT
As interference, spoofing and signal disruption continue to move from theoretical risk to operational reality, the 6th Annual Assured PNT Summit arrives at a pivotal time for the positioning, navigation and timing community.
Organized by Defense Strategies Institute, the summit will bring together leaders from the military services, federal government, industry and academia to examine how the United States can strengthen a PNT enterprise that remains essential to military operations, civil infrastructure and commercial activity. The agenda reflects both urgency and breadth: military PNT overmatch, GPS modernization, space resiliency, multi-layered architecture and the need to counter threats to trusted PNT services.
That matters because GPS remains foundational to how the nation functions. It underpins battlefield maneuver, navigation and precision effects, while also supporting power grids, telecommunications networks, transportation systems, financial markets and civilian navigation. But reliance on a single source also creates vulnerability. The summit is designed to address that challenge directly, with attention not only to protecting GPS, but also to advancing complementary and alternative sources of PNT that can sustain operations when signals are degraded or denied.
