Image: Global Sources Blog Editor's Note: Happy Saturday! Periodically we share some of the advertisements we and our members receive of devices like this.  As you will note, this one is targeted at 5G. Upon closer inspection you will see that, yes, GPS is one of the...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Great OpEd by Logan Scott. We agree completely with his assertion that the US just needs to do something.  And if whatever that is fails, well we have learned something and have a better idea what will work.  But as things are...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: To reinforce the point made in the article below, whether space-based or terrestrial, wide area PNT is not a profit making enterprise. It is a utility and infrastructure provided by government. Yes, it enables lots of...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A good overview article by an senior officer in India's Army.  Lots of good themes including "self reliant" and "resilient." It is also clear that jamming in the Ukraine are making some military folks think seriously about GNSS...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.   National Guard timing backup for GPS in House FY-2023 NDAA July 27, 2022  - By Dana Goward Est. reading time: 4 minutes On July 14, the U.S. House passed its version of the...

Image:  RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: There are some who still say the internet is asynchronous so timing isn't a critical factor. But networks do require synchronization and so do apps.  This piece is a good reminder that time is foundational and that we need to...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is RNTF President Dana A. Goward.   With 10,000+ aviation events in 2021, ITU issues GNSS interference warning Est. reading time: 2 minutes July 25, 2022  - By Dana Goward By Dana A. Goward Earlier this month,...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: South Korea has one dangerous adversary on its borders and two very nearby. Their government is very conscious of the need for resilience - the ability to withstand attack and, if needed, recover quickly. This has spurred them...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This item in Location Business News also received a lot of other press last week. While it isn't exactly in the center of our normal lane,  it is a great reminder that GPS receivers are also computers with their own potential...

Image: Hawkeye 360 Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below is president of the RNT Foundation.   Opinion Why Isn’t Russia jamming GPS harder in Ukraine? By Dana Goward  Jul 22, 06:52 AM Russian forces have been regularly jamming signals from the U.S. Global...

Blog Editor's Note: The U.S. Government collects reports of GPS problems in several different places. One of the most interesting and accessible is at the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center. It is the reporting point for the general public around the world.  The...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A great report from JNC by GPS World Editor, Matteo Luccio. And it is an affirmation that, if there is interest by government, industry is eager to respond and provide. Now, if we can move along from talking about it to actually...

We have seen a lot of these predictions and rarely report on them. Most of the time not much happens so we tend to wait until after the storm arrives and, if there were noticeable impacts, report on those. In this case, though, we thought it would be a good idea to...

We were saddened to learn of Pat's passing. Her leadership within the PNT community included serving on the National Space-based PNT Advisory Board, and as president of the Institute of Navigation.     Obituary: Patricia Helen Doherty, 72 May 23, 1950 – July...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Most people think about the eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, or Baltic when they thing about regular and persistent GPS/GNSS jamming. And they are not wrong. But Norway's northern Finnmark region is right up there among the...

Image: DOD Blog Editor's Note: We are all for preventing problems rather than waiting for them to crop up and then running around figuring out how to recover. Think about how much easier it would have been to fix the levees in New Orleans BEFORE Hurricane Katrina. ...

Image: Maritime Safety and Security Alliance Blog Editor's Note: The below article from February is still current and informative.  GNSS disruption in maritime is an everyday and widespread occurrence. And there are more incentives to maliciously disrupt GNSS signals...

Image: Inmarsat Blog Editor's Note: Interesting poll by Inmarsat of the general public about individuals' perceived self-knowledge of and attitudes toward space. 20,000 people across 11 different countries participated. We took a couple courses about how to do surveys...

Image: FCC Blog Editor's Note: Any wireless system has multiple legs. GPS, for example, is described has having space, control, and user segments.  Authorities in the European Union have already begun steps toward regulating receivers. It will be interesting to see...

Image: NASA Blog Editor's Note: We continue to learn about all the ways the sun threatens technology, and even civilization as we know it. From this article about a newly observed type of solar weather, it appears that scientists are still learning as well. Good thing...