Blog Editor's Note: This is a great example of making a system more resilient with a better user interface. As a helicopter pilot, at every new duty station it would take me several weeks to memorize the latitude and longitude of a new base so I could program the...

Blog Editor's Note: Great effort and expense is taken to put satellites in space and transmit quality GNSS signals.  Yet when these signals arrive on Earth, too often they are made useless by interference, or worse, corrupted into hazardously misleading information. ...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation GPS Jamming and Spoofing Reported at Port of Shanghai BY DANA GOWARD 2019-08-13 18:40:25 Reports have been filtering through the maritime community over the last month about strange AIS and GPS readings...

Image: New board members Jeff Hathaway and Pauline Cook join President Dana A. Goward recognizing Senators Cruz and Markey for their work on and passage of the National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2018. The Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation...

Image: Iranian patrol boat and British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero: Associated Press Blog Editor's Note:  Below are a warning published by the US Maritime Administration, and a press report that quotes an unnamed US defense official. Long time readers will discern...

Image: Aircraft taking off Ben Gurion Airport Nov 2018 - Flash90 Blog Editor's Note: While it seems like two months is a long time to have this problem, it is good to remember that it took US officials three months to resolve the first problem at Newark International...

Electrical grid fire in underground, Central London, 2015: Image Credit Merlin Fox Blog editor's note: Systems engineering calls for multiple sources of critical data and other inputs to ensure there are no single points of failure. The below article indicates that...

Blog editor's note: The below item isn't in the center or our normal "PNT  lane." Even if a GPS/GNSS satellite were to suffer the same fate, the incident would likely not have much impact to service from the constellation. This article does remind us, though, that...

Blog Editor's Note: The below article is an interview with Professor David Last by the popular German media outlet "Der Spiegel."  Prof. Last is a member of the RNT Foundation's International Advisory Council. Translation courtesy of Chrome "translate this page."...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is the international group where nations come together to make global civil aviation safer and more efficient. Recently it recognized long-standing problems with GNSS disruption in the Middle East by issuing a...

Image: Wikimedia Commons Blog Editor's Note: We haven't published a lot about GPS and other navigation problems in the rail industry. For one thing, it is hard for most people to imagine a train getting really lost. They tend to stay fairly close to where the rails...

Image: Maritime Executive Magazine Blog Editor's Note: We were wondering the same thing. Several of our members mentioned this as a possibility. But  news reports made it seem like the ship was boarded in international waters under the excuse of "improper use of...

LiDAR Point Image of Washington, DC: USGS.gov Blog Editor's Note: Last summer we saw a paper from researchers who spoofed all the GNSS constellations at once, and at the very modest price of $400. - If you are on a fixed income and $400 seems to be a lot, think about...

Image: European GNSS Agency Blog Editor's Note: This article appeared over the weekend on the site for the popular German magazine "Der Spiegel." About half of it is behind a paywall. We signed up for a free trial subscription, read the whole thing, and summarized the...

Last week a team from CBS Sunday Morning visited and interviewed RNTF President Dana A. Goward for most of a day. The crew traveled from New York City to northern Virginia to conduct the interview. The morning was spent at the foundation's world headquarters. After...

OPINION By Andrew F. Bach Now that Europe’s problems with Galileo have abated, at least for a while, I would like to offer a few thoughts. I am personally very reluctant to second-guess the poor people sitting in the operations hot seat having spent many a year in...

Blog Editor's Note: The best and most successful organizations are customer focused making sure the user experience is high quality and seamless. It seems as though governments often don't focus on the user experience, but are dazzled by an exciting technology or...

Blog Editor's Note: We are very glad to see Galileo initial service restored. You have undoubtedly seen speculation and reports as to the causes of the outage. Inside GNSS reported that two sources identified the Precise Time Facilities in Germany and Italy as the...

RNTF Commentary At the US PNT Advisory Board meeting last month, Regulus discussed its spoofing trials using a Tesla automobile. The company was able to cause the car to rapidly accelerate, brake, and exit the highway on command and counter to the auto-drive’s...

Image: FAA GPS Interference Prediction Tool showing areas of known GPS interference for 16 July (brown circles)   Blog Editor's Note: ADS-B is a flight safety system that, among other things, helps pilots and air traffic controllers ensure aircraft don't come too...