Image: Space Weather News, Millersville University (State University of Pennsylvania) Blog Editor's Note: Last year saw the sun reach solar minimum, the period of the least amount of activity (sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections),  We are now heading toward solar...

RNT Foundation Image: Existing Loran service areas in eastern hemisphere with recently announced expansion of Chinese system. Blog Editor's Note: The paper cited below was published three months after another Chinese paper in the same journal that discussed China's...

Image: South Korea Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is President of the RNT Foundation.   South Korea partners with broadcaster on eLoran and 10-cm GPS “Fourth industrial revolution and advanced technology” for all...

Image: Spoofed AIS signal tracks off (and on) the coast of California (illustration courtesy Skytruth) Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is President of the RNT Foundation. U.S. DOT, MARAD Convene Panel on GPS Jamming and Spoofing BY DANA A....

Image: Qascom Authentication seems to be the challenge of the age. Can you trust information you find on line?  What political "leaders" are saying? Or how about those signals from space? The folks over at the EU's Galileo program are trying to do something about the...

Image: US Department of Defense Blog Editor's Note: An interesting interview by Steve Forbes with Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett.  In the interview Secreatary Barrett discusses the importance of GPS and says, quite correctly: "And I would put forward the GPS...

Image: South Korea Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is President of the RNT Foundaiton. South Korea discusses decision to combine GPS and eLoran By  Dana A. Goward  11/17/2020 Citing requirements of the evolving...

Image: NASA Blog Editor's note: Interesting interview with Guy Buesnel from Spirent.  Readers may find this bit from the article particularly interesting: "With spoofing, even if a system is not a target, even if the attack does not fully succeed in taking over a...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Co-author Dana A. Goward is President of the RNT Foundation. Solution to GPS Hacking Space-Terrestrial Hybrid Navigation Combats Security Threats By RAdm Nick Lambert, Dana A. Goward In March 2017 NATO’s Exercise Joint Viking in...

Image: European Commission - JRC Ipsra Italy Test Site Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundaiton Europe seeks alternative PNT services, deadline Jan. 13 November 10, 2020  - By Dana Goward “In some specific cases, e.g., for critical...

Image: Septentrio from tech paper at https://www.septentrio.com/en/apme-multipath-mitigation-technology Blog Editor's Note:  An interesting blog post from Spirent that was also a paper and presentation at the recent International Timing and Synchronization Forum. ...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. Timing is Everything: To Protect Geospatial and the World, We Need Bullet-proof Time A resilient national timing architecture will do more than just making today’s GNSS systems more...

Blog Editor's Note:  The United Kingdom is far ahead of some other countries with PNT resilience. It has taken a while, though, and still things are moving slowly.   Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were added to the UK risk register in 2012. CMEs like the Carrington...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: No category of user is immune from interuptions to GPS/GNSS.  Signals are attractive targets because they are so important and widely used. They are easy targets because they are so weak and most receivers are unsophisticated. ...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note:  OK, we get it.  Everyone sees things through their own lens.  And if you specialize in hammers, you see nails everywhere you look. We have been doing a lot of work recently with timing. But it is REALLY easy to see the need for...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Thanks to RNTF member Omer Sharar, CEO of InfiniDome, for calling this item from January of this year to our attention. Several interesting things about the below article from "El Economista." First that folks in Mexico are...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A relatively recent paper from the University of Texas Radionavigation Laboratory (Peter A. Iannucci and Todd E. Humphreys) on leveraging a communication constellation in low earth orbit (LEO) for positioning, navigation and...

RNT Foundation Image: Historic High Accuracy Clock on Display at NIST Blog Editor's Note: Interesting two-in-one press release from NIST.   First they are looking for comment on their draft cyber security profile for PNT users. This document seeks to identify: Gaps in...

Shutterstock Image: Flatiron range near Boulder, CO. Blog Editor's Note - Most of our readers are already saying to themselves "this is about Lightsquared/Ligado."  Yes. Yes it is. Couple things to remember about "evidence based": Different people can look at the same...

Blog editor's note: RNT Foundation member DR Pat Diamond, and foundation president Dana A. Goward were two of the co-authors for the paper discussed below. Precise time for all: Paper calls for resilient national timing October 19, 2020  - By Tracy Cozzens A new white...