Blog Editor's Note: We are very glad to see Galileo initial service restored. You have undoubtedly seen speculation and reports as to the causes of the outage. Inside GNSS reported that two sources identified the Precise Time Facilities in Germany and Italy as the...

RNTF Commentary At the US PNT Advisory Board meeting last month, Regulus discussed its spoofing trials using a Tesla automobile. The company was able to cause the car to rapidly accelerate, brake, and exit the highway on command and counter to the auto-drive’s...

Image: FAA GPS Interference Prediction Tool showing areas of known GPS interference for 16 July (brown circles)   Blog Editor's Note: ADS-B is a flight safety system that, among other things, helps pilots and air traffic controllers ensure aircraft don't come too...

The initial warning on the 11th of July from the European GNSS Service Centre said: "UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, USERS MAY EXPERIENCE SERVICE DEGRADATION ON ALL GALILEO SATELLITES. THIS MEANS THAT THE SIGNALS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE NOR MEET THE MINIMUM PERFORMANCE LEVELS...

Blog Editor's Note: "Galileo" is Europe's navigation satellite system - their version of America's GPS. As the below article from Inside GNSS points out, it is having some problems at the moment. Before folks in the United States start talking about how the U.S. GPS...

Photo: IlkerErgun/Shutterstock.com Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is the President of the RNT Foundation. NASA report: Passenger aircraft nearly crashes due GPS disruption   July 8, 2019  - By Dana Goward   A report filed with NASA’s...

RNTF Commentary A report titled "Economic Benefits of the Global Positioning System (GPS)" by RTI International was released last month. Sponsored by the National Institutes for Standards and Technology, it offered seemingly contradictory conclusions. On the one hand...

Blog Editor's Note: On this USA Independence Day it is good to recall that not all peoples enjoy the liberties we have in the west. There are forces in the world threatened by our freedoms and constantly probing for weaknesses to exploit. Unguarded technologies like...

Blog Editor's Note: This was the second of two presentations we did last week. As with the one for the Senators, a thanks for the hard work and skill of our member and volunteer videographer, Gary Thomas, and to Ms. D. B. Goward for her help coordinating and producing...

Blog Editor's Note: Despite a lot going on in the Capitol at the time, we had a nice visit with the two Senators. Thanks to RNTF Member and volunteer Gary Thomas for the video and to Ms D. B. Goward for helping manage the event. Senators Cruz, Markey Address GPS...

Image: Wikimedia Commons Blog Editor's Note: Interesting follow-on report below from the BBC. Now we know it is spoofing vice jamming. Some of our thoughts: The below article posits that this could be a spill over from Russian operations next door in Syria. Quite...

Blog Editor's Note: We have seen reports of aviation GPS disruptions, sometimes chronic disruptions, from other places in the world. The Philippines, Egypt, the Koreas, and the eastern Mediterranean are all known trouble spots. And we understand that across Europe,...

Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is the President of the RNT Foundation. Maritime Groups Call for International Resolution Against Jamming & Spoofing June 25, 2019 By Dana A. Goward Fourteen maritime organizations have petitioned the U.S. Coast...

Blog Editor's Note: The below article from Ars Technica is sharply critical of the overt claims, and perhaps unstated but implied consequences, in Regulus' recent briefings and press releases (full disclosure - Regulus is an RNTF corporate member). Note that while a...

Image: Washington Post UPDATE 27 June 2019 - We just saw the following report by the New York Times that relates to our original post: "But a senior Trump administration official said there was concern inside the United States government about whether the drone, or...

Image: The Project Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article, Mr. Dana A. Goward, is President of the RNT Foundation. Jammers at dachas add to Russia’s ability to silence GPS June 19, 2019  - By Dana Goward Est. reading time: 3 minutes   A new...

Blog Editor's Note: Full disclosure, Regulus is a supporter of the RNT Foundation.  Our employee was genuinely frightened while holding the wheel, and despite the fact he could manually control the car and regain control, the split second of speeding, turning, and...

Image: Wikimedia Commons   Blog Editor's Note: Mr. Dana A. Goward interviewed in the story below is the President of the RNT Foundation.  Adviser: Cyber issues may be considered in update to policy on GPS technology June 18, 2019 | Mariam Baksh Observers see an...

The US National PNT Advisory Board and the RNT Foundation have long called for use of "Toughened" receivers as part of a holistic "Protect, Toughen, and Augment" approach to safeguarding GPS/GNSS signals and users. But what does "Toughen" really mean?  We at RNTF...