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Cheap and Easy GPS/ GNSS Spoofing – GPSPatron

Cheap and Easy GPS/ GNSS Spoofing – GPSPatron

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: GPSPatron wants to help protect you from GNSS spoofing. But many folks are still skeptical. They think spoofing must be pretty difficult and/or expensive. Not something they need to be concerned about. Kinda like ransomware. Not...

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GNSS & eLoran – European Security and Defence

GNSS & eLoran – European Security and Defence

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: Interesting article that includes quotes from our member Hellen Systems and our colleague RADM(ret) Nick Lambert, Royal Navy. One critique. The article states " LORAN has largely fallen out of use..." - Only true if your whole...

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Norway Experiments With Jamming

Norway Experiments With Jamming

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Norway has long been beset by Russia jamming GPS in its far north. Now the government of Norway is doing some jamming of its own. But it's not jamming Russia.  It is jamming at home. Two Norwegian press accounts below. One about...

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Huge Drone Display Falls From Sky – Video on Twitter

Huge Drone Display Falls From Sky – Video on Twitter

Image: 吴文行wenxingwu Here is an interesting item we came across. Seems there was a big drone display/demonstration in Zhengzhou, China when all of a sudden the drones started falling from the sky. To quote the Twitter post: "Word on the street is that a rival drone...

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Terrorists Shouldn’t Take Your Time – Forbes

Terrorists Shouldn’t Take Your Time – Forbes

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Another good article for the general public by our member Diana Furchtgott-Roth explaining a rather complex issue.  The timing services Hoptroff and others provide via fiber are part of what should be an essential timing...

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GPS Disruption Warning – U.S. Maritime Administration

GPS Disruption Warning – U.S. Maritime Administration

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This is the most recent warning issued for GPS disruption by the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD). For most of the last four or five years MARAD has had a similar warning active and on the books. The advisory points out that...

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Could a GPS 9/11 Happen? – Location Business News

Could a GPS 9/11 Happen? – Location Business News

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...

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Strengthening PNT to Avert Economic Setbacks – GW Prime

Strengthening PNT to Avert Economic Setbacks – GW Prime

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...

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Two years since the Tesla GPS hack – GPS World

Two years since the Tesla GPS hack – GPS World

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...

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Cheap and Easy GPS/ GNSS Spoofing – GPSPatron

New Terrorism Peril For Transportation Networks – Forbes

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...

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Need for Resilient PNT Has Never Been Greater – EET India

Need for Resilient PNT Has Never Been Greater – EET India

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,...

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