Image: Shutterstock What's New: Russians are interfering with more than just GPS signals. They are jamming higher power satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) also. Why It's Important: Calculating one's location using communications satellites can be an alternative if...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The Dept of Transportation (Office of the Secretary, interestingly, not FAA) is asking for public input on "Advanced Air Mobility" or AAM. According to NASA "The vision of AAM is that of a safe, accessible, automated, and affordable air...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is President of the RNT Foundation. UK considering eLoran broadcast licenses May 23, 2023  - By Dana Goward The United Kingdom’s spectrum agency, Ofcom, is seeking comments on its proposal to issue...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The authors are President and Chairman of the Board of the RNT Foundation.   Opinion Defending Taiwan by countering China’s biggest threat  Dana A. Goward and Martin C. Faga May 22, 2023 Dana A. Goward is president of the...

What's the news: National Cybersecurity Strategy doesn't recognize PNT as a critical component of cyber. Why it's important: IT systems use PNT feeds for data and to operate systems. Most PNT inputs are GPS-based. GPS signals are very easy to deny or imitate (hack)....

Image: European Space Agency What's New: Europe's concern about the increasing amount of dangerous debris in space threating Galileo, GPS and other satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). What to Know: There are MILLIONS, maybe tens of millions, of pieces of debris in...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A summary of various cyber attack vectors using GPS/GNSS by long-time RNTF member Chronos. Why It's Important:  There has been a long standing debate in government as to whether PNT disruption is an electronic warfare or cyber problem....

Department of Defense Image What's New: We included this as part of another post last week, but decided it was too important to be buried as part of something else. A great perspective on: China deliberately, over the long haul, using every lever of national power and...

Image: Shutterstock An informative LinkedIn post from our friends at NLA International.   How Resilient Position, Navigation and Timing can INSPIRe greater confidence in the Blue Economy Blue Economy Pulse 2,012 followers Follow May 12, 2023 By Phil...

Image: Govt of Japan What's New: Japan is increasing the number of its regional navigation satellites from 4 to either 7 or 11.  Either way will allow users positioning, navigation, and timing independently from GPS. Why It's Important:  Nations are concerned GPS may...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Growing awareness of multiple threats from China, including their huge Tactical PNT advantage in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea Strategic PNT advantage to the USA with Ability to attempt to influence policy and actions by threats...

Image: National Assn. of Broadcasters What's New: More information about how TV broadcasts could be used to provide PNT independent of GPS. We have posted about this before. The article excerpted below provides an updated description. Why It's Important: Having more...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Several new papers showing how to use communications satellites to derive PNT. Why It's Important: There are lots of comms satellites up there They are in Low Earth Orbit, verses Medium Earth Orbit for GPS/GNSS, so signals are much...

Department of Defense Image What's New: An impassioned short speech on the floor of the Senate by Sen. Wicker, ranking member of the Armed Services Committee Why it is Important: Part of a growing awareness of China as a multi, multi, multi dimensional threat. And a...

Image: US Air Force What's New: Senior aerospace executive acknowledges DOD does not seem interested in doing anything other than tinkering with better PNT. What to Know: The Government Accountability Office issued three reports in 15 months criticizing the way DOD...

Europe's STRIKE3 project showed that 90% of interference signals are accidental. That doesn't mean they are harmless. Think about the commercial passenger aircraft that was almost lost in Sun Valley. And the major disruptions last year in Dallas and Denver. We wonder...

Image: Shutterstock "Over just the last few years, the quantity and quality of counterspace threats have increased significantly," What's New: DOD information about threats in space. Most, if not all, is a rehash of publicly available congressional testimony. But it...

Image: YouTube - Chinese spacecraft damages US satellite, "Space Force" Episode 1 What's New: Leaked classified documents obtained by the Washington Post indicate government intelligence agrees with what most observers have been saying. In a conflict over Taiwan,...

Image: NASA What's New: Here is the agenda for the President's Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board meeting in Annapolis, MD next week (3rd and 4th of May). What to Know: You don't have to go to Annapolis to attend the meeting! A link to...

Image: Shutterstock 91 groups across a wide range of industries have sent a letter urging the Biden Administration and Congress to work with the FCC to stay and ultimately set aside the harmful Ligado Order. In the letter, the groups stated: “Three years after...