Blog Editor's Note: A fascinating article about the newest phase in the spoofing wars. No wonder China is focusing on "comprehensive PNT" vice just relying on satellites! Smart Cities Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai A sophisticated...

Blog Editor's Note - The author of the below is the President of the RNT Foundation. China leads world with plan for ‘comprehensive’ PNT November 15, 2019  - By Dana Goward Speaking at the annual Stanford Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Symposium, a Chinese...

Blog Editor's Note: Recent press reports about the FCC preparing to act on the Ligado proposal caused us to start thinking about this again. The result was us filing this letter to the docket.   14 November 2019 Re: Ex parte presentation in IB Docket Nos. 11-109...

Graphic showing Galileo's failure. Pic: Bert Hubert. Blog Editor's Note: An interesting summary/compilation about this summer's Galileo failure. Interesting how the human factor is still so dominant in many of these kinds of mishaps. In aviation we call pilots the...

[Diana Furchtgott-Roth, DOT deputy assistant secretary for research and technology, speaks to the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting in Miami. Photo: Dee Ann Divis] Blog Editor's Note: Another step in the process of the U.S. acquiring the backup for...

Graphic: Getty Images Blog Editor's Note: While not a lot in the below is "newsworthy" for many of our readers, it's a good compilation. It is also encouraging for all of us to see this issue being framed and presented for a general audience. An audience that, for the...

Pierre Delsaux speaks at an EU breakfast on space policy . (Photo: European Union) Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is the President of the RNT Foundation. “Unacceptable! Never again!”: EC Deputy on Galileo outage November 5, 2019  - By Dana Goward...

Blog Editor's Note: The recent action at ICAO's Assembly declaring GNSS disruption an urgent issue has increased focus on the issue within the aviation community.  One note about the below - The author says that the best form of protection from spoofing is with...

[Photo: Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, Chairman Ajit Pai, Commissioner Brendan Carr and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks.  Courtesy FCC.]   Blog Editor's Note: Another exceptional job of reporting by Dee Ann Divis. We have heard...

RNTF Report On the 18th we alerted our readers to the pending announcement of a European Commission procurement of  "an advanced interference detection and robustness capabilities system." That announcement was made last week. Information is available on the EU site...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is the President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. US Army partners with UT Austin, Texas A&M System for advanced PNT October 30, 2019  - By Dana Goward   This month, the University of Texas at Austin became a...

Blog Editor's Note: The below is a good compilation of incidents reported by many sources on this topic. We offer it as a refresher and an example of the increasing and broadening awareness of GPS/GNSS vulnerabilities and how they are regularly being exploited by...

Photo Credit: Rebecca Zia Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is the President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. Parkinson questions long delay resolving Ligado issue October 22, 2019  - By Dana Goward Tells Space Advisory group spectrum...

Blog Editor's Note: We have seen a number of items in the press recently about the US Army's efforts with resilient and APNT. They have made a big deal about the first installations of MAPS. They are also the Department of Defense executive agent for development of...

The Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach, already great destinations, will host three days of PNT events next month. ... 09:00 - 18:00: Kennedy Space Center Tours and Visitor Complex It's the Greatest Space Adventure on Earth! Whether your visit includes training like...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is the president of the RNT Foundation. EU contracting for GNSS interference detection network October 17, 2019  - By Dana Goward Request for proposals to be issued The Official Journal of the European Union (EU) will publish a funding...

So, you thought you had survived the once-every-twenty-years GPS rollover event just because nothing bad happened on the 6th of April. You thought you were safe for the next 157 years because the GPS date counter will be increased to 13 bits. Not. So. Fast. It seems...

Sir George Airy established a meridian at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1851 to serve as a common reference for astronomical observations and navigation. By 1884 two thirds of ships were using it as a reference on their charts. US President Chester A. Arthur...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is the President of the RNT Foundation UN Aviation Body: GPS/GNSS Disruption an Urgent Safety Priority October 10, 2019  Dana A. Goward Last week the triennial assembly of the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization...

Blog Editor's Note: The 1859 "Carrington Event" coronal mass ejection was so powerful it induced currents in telegraph wires strong enough to set telegraph offices on fire. A smaller event in 1921 "the NY Railway solar flare" did the same thing to a railway office in...