Image: Navigation Outlook We were greatly saddened today to hear of Dee Ann's passing. She was a colleague and friend. The write up for her 2012 Watchdog award said: “Dee Ann Divis has recognized a threat to the general public, disruption of the GPS services that so...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: "Silicon Flatirons" is a program of Colorado Law at the University of Colorado that focuses on the digital world. The publication "Policy Tracker" reported on the most recent Silicon Flatirons event and its recommendations for...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: A thoughtful piece from RNTF member Mitch Narins.  This might a good time to reproduce several PNT, system of system graphics we have laying around. One was done by DOT & DOD in 2008, RNT Foundation did two, one is from...

Image: CASC Blog Editor's Note: Yep. And they can probably 'blind and deafen' the homeland as well. The report mentioned below is "2022 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China." A couple of quotes: "PLA EW units routinely...

Image: Dr. Brad Parkinson - Showing effectiveness of beam steering antenna in combatting GPS jamming Adaptive antennas are very effective at protecting GPS/GNSS receivers from both jamming and spoofing. At the recent PNT Advisory Board meeting Prof. Brad Parkinson...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This project has gotten a lot of press in the last couple weeks.  The below report in the Register is the first one, though, that points out some of the challenges to implementing it on a broad scale. They list:  No coverage in...

Image: Shutterstock Folks in the US government used to like to say that "GPS is the gold standard" for GNSS. Today, Bei Dou and Galileo are newer systems with capabilities not currently available to GPS users. Long lives for GPS satellites, extended lead times to...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: I think of myself as a pretty optimistic, upbeat kinda guy. At least most of the time. After all, humanity's arc - over the long run - has been improving. People are living longer and healthier, globally fewer are dying in...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Time and timing are becoming increasingly important. Per the article below, anything that upsets that is increasingly bad. Synchronizing locally, relatively, is good, nay necessary. But what we really need is for everyone to be...

Image: FCC Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.     FCC Creating Space Bureau – Implications for Ligado Decision? November 17, 2022  - By Dana Goward Speaking at the National Press Club on November 3rd, Federal Communications...

Image: Shutterstock The US National PNT Advisory Board adopted a recommendation at its meeting last week for the Department of Transportation (DOT) to warn the public as soon as possible when GPS services were being disrupted. The recommendation is being finalized for...

Image: Shutterstock The President's National Space-based Positioning Navigation and Timing Advisory Board concluded it's 27th meeting yesterday with a slew of recommendations to be refined and forwarded to government. One of these struck to the heart of how PNT and...

NASA Image Blog Editor's Note: Kudos to four RNT Foundation corporate members who gave presentations today to the President's National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board. In the order of presentation: Patrick Shannon of Trustpoint spoke...

We are very pleased to welcome Logan Scott to our International Advisory Council. He has long been one of our most trusted sources and we are very glad to make the relationship a bit more official! Logan Scott has over 40 years of military and civil GPS systems...

Image: FBI.gov Blog Editor's Note: We need to be careful to not just have good devices, but also need to ensure the devices are accessing valid information? Maybe timing and location information, for example? PNT security is a key component of cybersecurity. And much...

Image: Shutterstock We heard from our friend Charles Curry of Chronos Technology over the long weekend. He had a "yes and" to last week's post about a jammer company with a new product line. - Full disclosure, Chronos has long be an RNTF corporate member.  Charles is...

Blog Editor's Note: If you can't attend in person you can always live stream. Proud that our corporate members Xona, Trustpoint, Cold Quanta, and National Assn of Broadcasters are all presenting!   UPDATE: Link to meeting slides and videos here.    ...

Image: Jammerall Co. Blog Editor's Note: Our members often send us things like this. Sometimes we just can't resist posting.  If you are concerned we are spreading information that shouldn't be out there - the bad guys and gals already know. We are trying to inform...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is President of the RNT Foundation.     UK PNT: Royal Institute encourages government, Parliament slams it November 8, 2022  - By Dana A. Goward Est. reading time: 4:30 RNT...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: More is better, diversity of sources is better still. In fairness, satellites in LEO add a bit of diversity compared to having them all in MEO. And there are a lot of advantages to focusing on space. Global coverage for sure....