Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note:  Great article with some interesting background.  And more widely applicable. Just remove "connected car" from the title and substitute, well... just about anything, and it should still work.  "President Biden, we urge you to...

Image: Shutterstock A poll of participants at yesterday's RNTF/ ION Webinar "GAO Report: Defense Navigation Capabilities" showed attendees overwhelmingly favoring better mechanisms for both coordinating alternative PNT projects within the department and its interface...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We have talked a lot in recent posts about the PNT gap between the U.S.A. and our adversaries China, Russia, and Iran. It is a gap that, as Beebe says in "The Russia Trap" (could also be titled "the China Trap") creates...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: Up front caveat - the editor has deep Coast Guard experience and more that a passing familiarity with eLoran. In fact, he probably still is on the "bad list" of a major telecommunications company because he was not able to...

Webinar - GNSS Timing Threats and Fallback Options - 23 June 2021 17:00 London, 12:00 New York GNSS-based timing is ubiquitous and free, but at the same time exceptionally vulnerable to interference. The United Kingdom is in the first phases of implementing its...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note:  We were interested to find the discussion of the importance of resilience and PNT in George Beebe's book "The Russia Trap."   Beebe talks about "War by Other Means" and how simmering tensions can cause seemingly innocuous...

Image: Shutterstock   Blog Editor's Note: The author is RNT Foundation President Dana A. Goward.   $17M proposed for DOT resilient PNT initiatives June 4, 2021  - By Dana Goward Office and Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to extend Trump policies and repeal...

The General Accountability Office (GAO) released a somewhat scathing report about Department of Defense navigation programs this month. Among their findings and inferences were: Navigation requirements for projects and systems are often overstated with managers just...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Notes: This article hits so many of the strategic concerns around US  over-reliance on GPS.  And it is from a source in Japan, a country probably even more worried about China than the U.S., if that is possible. The article sub-head...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This is a very interesting and compelling piece. Very timely also considering Galileo's avoidance maneuver in March. Also noteworthy is that the author appropriately defines risk as threat x vulnerability x consequence. So while...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is president of the RNT Foundation.   Telecom groups press president, Congress for GPS alternatives May 25, 2021  - By Dana Goward America urgently needs alternatives to GPS and the government must fund efforts...

Image: YouTube Blog Editor's Note: If you are interested in PNT and don't follow Logan Scott on LInkedin, you are missing a bet. Here is one of his typically thoughtful posts discussing some of the larger PNT resilience and policy issues.   Resilient PNT for...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Another great piece by RNT Foundation member, Diana Furchtgott-Roth. She makes the point that in its decision to approve Ligado's application, the FCC required the company to reimburse the U.S. government for any harm done to...

Image: Artist rendering of Blackjack PNT satellites. Credit: Northrop Grumman Blog Editor's Notes: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites will undoubtedly become a valued layer in a system-of-systems approach to resilient PNT (see and download our architecture poster here)....

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: An interesting post by Guy Buesnel, a member of RNT Foundation's International Advisory Committee. We have not often seen this issue raised and appreciate his stimulating the discussion. From his post: "While Ligado is the focus...

Image: US Department of Defense Blog Editor's Note: Last year the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) produced their "Space Threat Assessment, 2020," upon which we reported. This year they chose an intriguing Harry Potter theme. Quite appropriate. As...

Image: European Space Agency Blog Editor's Note: Yesterday we blogged about the sun. Today the issue is problems with debris. In the last year or so we have heard about space-based and kinetic weapons threatening our satellites. It wasn't that long ago that people...

Image: NASA & Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. Racing the Sun to Protect America Lessons from the solar storm of May 1921 By Dana A. Goward, President, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation MAY 14, 2021  One...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A very timely headline given the GAO report released this week suggesting the same thing for the U.S. Department of Defense. A good read on the UK perspective.  Save the date! -  RNT Foundation and the Hoptroff organization...

Image Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. GAO Report: ‘Use resilient tech vs. GPS as DOD primary PNT’ May 11, 2021  - By Dana Goward Preview (opens in a new tab)   A new report by the Government Accountability Office...