Image: U.S. Air Force What's New: The Air Force is making progress with it's Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) approach to navigation. Why It's Important: Building a navigation system (like GPS) into an aircraft, weapons, or other system means that to change or...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The latest report from GAO about DoD's leadership and management of the GPS program. Why It's Important: Operation of GPS and its associated upgrades and research efforts cost upwards of $2B/yr. The Government Accountability Office...

Image: European Commission What's New: Another move by Europe reaffirming their assertion that PNT from space-based is not enough. Why It's Important: Implementing such a system will make participants much more resilient, safer, and support economic (especially tech)...

Image: SKAI Data Services What's New: Another round of GPS disruption by North Korea. Why It's Important: GPS spoofing causes receivers to have hazardously misleading information that can cause or contribute to accidents. What Else to Know: South Korea continues to...

Image: Voice of America Expert Opinion GPS Does Need a Backup, Terrestrial Is the Answer – But Which Terrestrial? A key effort to protecting America, and GPS by making it a much less attractive target, is to establish a terrestrial backup system. Dana A. Goward Nov 8,...

Image: The Hudson Institute/Youtube What's New: A panel discussion at the Hudson Institute, in person, live-streamed, and recorded. Why It's Important: This was an entirely new idea for lots of attendees, including some from international development, transportation,...

Image: NASI, Timing Solutions' Dr. Zdenek Chaloupka & NSAI's David Fleming What's New: Ireland leading the way in authenticating GNSS signals to counter spoofing. Why It's Important: Spoofing is increasingly becoming a problem threatening the safety of life and...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: More popular dissemination about what has been a niche issue. Why It's Important: The more diverse audiences are exposed, the greater the probability of solutions. What Else to Know: The author is Chief Marketing officer at Ubix.AI -...

Image: NASA What's New: A short piece from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Why It's Important: This paper helps raise the issue to the policy level where it has long belonged but not been considered. CSIS has a lot of credibility, especially...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A report by the Quantum Economic Development Consortium about the potential to use quantum sensing for PNT. Why it's Important: Quantum clocks can keep very, very precise and accurate time. Quantum sensors can act like inertial devices...

Image: GPS Patron What's New: These issues being discussed in more and more forums.  In this case as a spectrum  security issue.  It is also a cyber issue. An electronic warfare issue, a navigation issue, a timing issue... Why It's Important: This is everyone's...

Image: Shutterstock What's New:  As far as we know, this is the first public discussion of the likelihood China can, and Russia will be able to, spoof GPS and Galileo from space. Why It's Important: Jamming and spoofing from space can have far greater impact and be...

Image: Shutterstock Sharing an insightful LinkedIn post by our Advisory Council member Logan Scott.   An offroad paradigm for thinking about resilient PNT Logan Scott GNSS/GPS Expert October 22, 2024 My friend Dana Goward recently asked me what is the right way...

Image: Baltic Jamming on 19 Jan 2024, GPSJam.org What's New: More validation of "the new normal." The article has some interesting quotes from Gustavo Lopez at Septrino. Why It's Important: We hope this helps the idea that we can't over-rely on GNSS the way we have...

Image: Norway Telecom Authority What's New: Officials in Norway have accepted that there will be no GPS service in their far north because the Russians are constantly jamming. Why It's Important: This is an indicator of the "new normal" for many parts of the globe....

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A "Defense Matters" column in the most recent newsletter from the Institute of Navigation. Why It's Important: PNT underlies every technology and enables many DOD weapons systems, ability to maneuver, etc. Most of DOD's PNT is GPS. As...

Image: Prof Todd Humphreys, Univ Texas Radionavigation Lab What's New: A graphic from Prof. Todd Humphreys showing loss of GPS/GNSS signals by satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) because of jamming on the ground. Why It's Important: :Most LEO satellites use location...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A statement by the head of the International Air Transport Association, the trade association for major airlines. Why It's Important: The statement shows the differences in point of view and communications between airlines and national...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: The results of a war game outlining how China will cut undersea cables, attack GPS, and otherwise isolate Taiwan in a conflict to take control of the island. Why It's Important: Like most advanced nations, Taiwan has not widely...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A reminder that, even when electrical service is down, cell towers are out, and everything seems to be going wrong, America's GPS becomes even more important. If that is at all possible. Why It's Important:  Search and rescue, recovery...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: A Chinese newspaper article that their national eLoran network is complete. Why It's Important: This completes China's "PNT resilience triad" of getting signals from space, terrestrial broadcast and fiber. Three highly diverse methods...

Image: Shutterstock Announcing the RNT Foundation Study and Scholars’ Fund Donate Today! PNT technology is great, and there is a lot of it. But without a business case or government leadership, it often goes nowhere. At the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation...

Image: UrsaNav What's New: More action in the UK on resilient PNT. Why It's Important: The UK MOD announcement indicates there is a contract for a system in the wind. What the UK does can influence other militaries and governments. This MOD action will likely presage...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Several items in the news and recent briefings about efforts that will make PNT incrementally more resilient, but are only part of managing the problem. Why It's Important: Everyone wants to solve problems. But most problems, especially...

Image: Air Traffic Technology International What's New: There have been a lot of items in the news recently that we haven't posted and commented on. Many are about issues we have addressed elsewhere, and some of them are  behind paywalls - but you can get a sense of...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A 9 minute podcast from NPR's Planet Money team. Why It's Important: It focuses on the economic impact of losing GPS which is a rare perspective, and how China and Russia have backup systems. Both important messages. What Else to Know: ...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A webinar by the Israeli company, Infinidome. Why It's Important:  This is always a pertinent discussion, especially in the last year when more and more GNSS disruption has been occurring. Israelis have experienced a lot of interference...

3rd Annual UK PNT Leadership Seminar   20/11/2024 When: 20/11/2024 1030-1615 (reception 1615-1830) Where: The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom Contact: Clare Stead [email protected] REGISTER HERE Positioning, navigation and timing...

Image: Norway Telecom Authority What's New: Our colleague Prof Todd Humphrey's speaking at CGSIC this week reminded us about an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) resolution from from December of last year. It takes a strong stand against interference with...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A roundup of national PNT efforts around the world. Why It's Important: There is a lot going on, but efforts vary widely. So, therefore, does  PNT resilience and nation's security. What Else to Know: The author is President of the RNT...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A report (rumor?) that Amazon's founder is thinking of getting into satnav. Why It's Important:  Certainly backing up and protecting GPS is important. It is a sign that some of the biggest and richest players are becoming aware of GPS...

Image: PNT System of Systems Approach - RNT Foundation What's New: A paper published by Toffler Associates s and written by retired RADM Dave Simpson, USN, now a professor at Virginia Tech calling for resilient PNT. Full title: A DAY WITHOUT SPACE AND A CALL FOR...

Image: John Hartzell What's New: A trio of items showing the challenges of making GPS more secure and perform better. Why It's Important: PNT is essential. Most of our PNT comes from GPS and we have nothing else on the horizon. If GPS signals are not available for any...

Image: Singapore Maritime Law Enforcement Agency What's New: Ships collide in the dark when one is spoofing its GPS position. An example of the bad things that can happen during spoofing. Why It's Important: Spoofing makes all operations less safe. And it happens so...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The final report from OPSGROUP's GPS Spoofing Work Group. A tech guide and a crew guide were released earlier. It is an excellent 128 page, easy to browse or read document. Why It's Important: It reflects the unvarnished views of flight...

Image: ROKE What's New: A presentation by Roke for ESA's NAVISP program on the results of a project to develop an eLoran antenna for handhelds. It seems much smaller antennas are possible and only a matter of doing some more engineering. Why It's Important: eLoran is...

Image: OPSGROUP What's New: OPSGROUP has published guidance for crew and tech personnel on GPS spoofing in aviation. Why it's Important: GPS spoofing in aviation has seen a huge uptick, especially in the middle east, Ukraine, and the Baltic. It has also started...

Image: Map of Arctic, U.S. Department of Defense What's New: Department of Defense Arctic Strategy that hardly mentions PNT. It does say: In addition to nuclear, conventional, and special operations threats, Russia seeks to carry out lower level destabilizing...

Image: SKAI Data Services, 31 Aug 2024 What's New: An article by Mr. Roboto, an AI program. This is the second time we have posted something written by AI... as far as we know... The first was what we got when we asked Microsoft's co-pilot AI to write three...

Image: GPS III Lockheed Martin What's New: A thought piece by RNTF member Mitch Narins. Why It's Important: He raises the issue of some folks focusing on GNSS, others on PNT and ensuring users have it. What Else to Know:  We are glad to see more non-GNSS papers and...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: This article helps put Russia's interference with GPS in a larger context. Why It's Important: "Grey zone" conflicts are still conflicts and do harm. They can also lead to shooting wars, sometimes despite the intent on both sides to...

Image: Lockheed and Shutterstock What's New: Op Ed discussing two different expert groups sending the same message on PNT to the U.S. government. Why It's Important: Our over-reliance on GPS for PNT is a really bad idea. If you don't understand the image, look up...

Image: GPS use and research by civilians has greatly contributed to improvements in user equipment. Image credit 1976 GPS receiver Smithsonian and microchip Shutterstock. What's New: The Civil GPS Service Interface Committee Meeting is coming up soon. There is still...

Image: UK MOD What's New: More work to mitigate the impact of GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing. Why It's Important: At present most aircraft, including western military aircraft, over-rely on GNSS, usually GPS. As we have seen, this is a huge vulnerability. What Else to...

Image: ACCEPT students presenting to USNO and Microchip reps -  Univ. of Alabama ACCEPT: University of Alabama prepping next generation of PNTF experts Est. reading time: 2:30 August 20, 2024  - By Dana Goward The University of Alabama, with the support of the...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Not much other than The Telegraph, a popular media outlet, has taken notice. Why It's Important: See "popular media outlet" above. What Else to Know: The columnist gets the theme right. Though, OneWeb could have provided some PNT, we...

Image: Alex Schofield at European Navigation Conference - RIN photo What's New: A report from the most recent beneficiary of the Royal Institute of Navigation's Professor David Last Fund. Why It's Important: Encouraging development of PNT professionals is key to the...

Image: The Longleat Hedge Maze in Wiltshire, England. Public domain. What's New: A different look at GPS. How using it is affecting our brains and behavior. Why It's Important: Technology should not be about technology. It should be about users and how it makes life...

Image: Typical Offshore Platform - Shutterstock What's New: Ukraine destroying another Russia facility that interfered with GPS transmissions.  Why It's Important: Ship navigation and safety systems like AIS use GPS. Russia has been disrupting GPS signals in the Black...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Another report and perspective on the PNT Advisory Board's recent memo to the Deputy Secretaries of Defense and Transportation.  Why It's Important: The previous media on this was in GPS World, an industry journal. Breaking Defense has...