Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: There is a lot to unpack in the three short responses to the question posted to the panel.  Our response to their answers is "all of the above."  We absolutely need A holistic approach that includes interference detection and...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.     GPS Lessons from Before 9/11 Still Endanger the U.S. By Dana A. Goward, President, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 02:16 PM ET “Public...

Image: Wikimedia Commons Tony Ray Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is President of the RNT Foundation     Galileo, OneWeb and the UK’s sovereignty way forward September 15, 2021  - By Dana Goward A discussion with Admiral Lord West Admiral...

Image: US Department of Defense Blog Editor' s Note: Most of our potential comments are already in the below article. Though somehow "get the bullseye off  GPS" didn't make it in. 🙂   Could a GPS 9/11 Happen? By Kevin Dennehy September 15, 2021 More industry...

Image: KPIX This four minute piece from the CBS affiliate in San Francisco poses an interesting question.  There are certainly plenty of individuals, groups, and governments out there who might like to bring the U.S. to its knees. For example, in 1996 China suffered...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A good overview article. One note, though. The $1.3B loss per day shown for the U.S. should we be without GPS comes from an RTI study done for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. That seems like a big loss that...

Image: Roi Mit Blog Editor's Note: An interesting reminder of a hallmark event within the PNT community. We are sure it had a significant impact on the folks at Tesla, and probably significant but probably lesser impact at other car companies.  We would have hoped...

Image: USAF, 2d Lt Jacob Lutz, AFRL/RV The House version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2022, which begins on the first of October, requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide a briefing to the Armed Services Committee about establishment of a...

Image:Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Good posting on Linkedin. A few thoughts: China has a huge edge over the US on 5G because of this. While US networks rely heavily (almost exclusively) on GPS, China has and is improving its comprehensive timing infrastructure. It...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Lots of steps this week in the dance between the UK and EU. We have been on the verge of posting something about it several times. This seems like the end of this phase, though, so a good time to recap, which this article does....

Image: National Academies Blog Editor's Note: The author is president of the RNT Foundation.   National Academies Proposes Team to Study FCC Ligado Decision September 2, 2021  - By Dana Goward The National Academies has announced its proposed team to examine the...

Image:  "Fortunately" written and illustrated by Remi Charlip Normally presentations at the ION Joint Navigation Conference are not releasable to the public. We were very pleased that the very first presentation we attended on the first day was by our friend, the...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Another good article by RNTF member Diana Furchtgott-Roth. We appreciate that she is saying "new" terrorism peril to help wake up folks to a peril that has been out there quite a while and, as she points out, has been getting...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This article is a interesting follow-on to GAO's report on "DoD Navigation Capabilities."  The article is worth reading for additional information it brings to light. The author also refers to a RAND report we have discussed...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Great article showing, again, how China plays the long game.  Contrast their 30 and 40 year efforts with what seems to be a two-year planning window in the U. S. based on elections to the House of Representatives. Or maybe it is...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.   Opinion With Chinese and Russian knives at the throat of GPS, Senate calls for a study, waits for administration to follow law By Dana A. Goward  Aug 20, 2021 The Senate...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A good overview article by RNTF International Advisory Committee member, Guy Buesnel.  It is good to see this message getting to places like India and to read about progress in Europe. Adding on to the article's European info,...

Blog Editor's Note: For years users have wanted to be able to include "resilience" as a requirement for PNT receivers in their purchase orders.  But it has been an elusive goal.  This is an important step in the right direction. An excellent development. Kudos to the...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Another example of recent media highlighting that space is a dangerous place.  Measures like this are undoubtedly necessary. If for no other reason than to stay on a par, or hopefully slightly ahead of, the Chinese and Russians....

Image: U.S. DOT Blog Editor's Note:  This is a long piece so we won't add much to it with a long commentary. Only to say that since our inception we have endorsed the architecture/ system of systems approach as envisioned in the US govt's still-in-use 2008 National...