Image: Norway Defense Minister visiting with troops - Marita I Wangberg Norway Armed Forces What's New: Norway made its biggest ammunition buy ever ($260M) as part of a defense build up over worries about Russia. Norway has sent $60M worth of ammunition to Ukraine and...

Image: Lauren Layman, ATIS       It’s About Time - For a National Resilient Timing Architecture Presentation by RNTF President Dana A. Goward ATIS “Time and Money,” NY Stock Exchange, 17 January 2023   “It’s about time.” Have you ever noticed that...

Image: Shutterstock What's New - NTIA is asking for comments about how to spend the $1.5B Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation (PWSCI) Fund. Establishing a resilient national timing architecture will provide underlying tech infrastructure needed to support;...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Notes What's New: A recently released DHS document on GPS disruption. It uses the January 2022 Denver event as an example. The report does not say: Why it took 33 hours to find the source of the disruption Why only aviation users were...

Image: Shutterstock Spoofing can be a real problem. We have seen reports of it being used to steal pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and, without a doubt, it is being used in other cargo heists. Mexico has determined that 85% of cargo thefts involved some kind of deliberate...

Image: ESA Blog Editor's Note: It was 2015. Despite fervent pleas from the UK, the rest of Europe and Scandinavia terminated Loran transmissions (the UK has kept its lone eLoran transmitter on air as a timing signal). The conventional wisdom is that keeping Loran...

Hope you can join me at the New York Stock Exchange in a couple weeks! ATIS' "Time and Money" is happening again, and it promises to be more interesting than ever. Not only is yours truly, Dana "I-never-met-a-microphone-I-didn't-like" Goward speaking, but there are a...

Image: GPS.gov & UC Berkely Blog Editor's Note: We were very pleased to see our colleague Terry Moore, also a member of the U.S. President's PNT Advisory Board, honored by King Charles. News release from the University of Nottingham where he is a professor...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: If the International Telecommunications Union, a UN body that can't say anything unless EVERYONE agrees, says something, it must be true! The best way to ensure any nation, especially one as large and diverse as the U.S., has...

Image: GPSJam.org Blog Editor's Note: Interesting post on Twitter by John Wiseman of GPSJam.org https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1608634342703771649/video/1  

Image: Russian State Media Photo Blog Editor's Note: A couple of articles, one emphasizing the glass is 10% full, the other that it is 90% empty. You choose which view you like. We have seen other reporting that Ukrainian defenses against Russian drones and missiles...

Image: GoogleMaps Blog Editor's Note: Aside from the middle east and Ukraine, northern Norway might be the most jammed place in the world. Just search our site for "Norway" to find numerous mentions. Several quotes from the recent article below that are of particular...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.   Ukraine attacks changed Russian GPS jamming December 20, 2022  - By Dana Goward Two Russian airbases deep inside the country were attacked on December 5: the Engels-2 base...

Images: GPSjam.org Blog Editor's Note: When the writer of this piece called for an interview, we took a closer look at GPSJam.org depictions. A couple of interesting things. Though Ukraine's attacks on airports began on the 5th of December, the increased jamming did...

Image: NASA - PNT Advisory Board Nov 2022 Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is President of the RNT Foundation   Experts urge jamming detection network – Free webinar shows easy method using smartphones December 14, 2022  - By Dana Goward By all...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: An interesting article by David Chandler from corporate member Microchip. We were struck by his mention of the need for simultaneity across the nation. This very much aligns with our 2020 paper "A Resilient National Timing...

Image: Navigation Outlook We were greatly saddened today to hear of Dee Ann's passing. She was a colleague and friend. The write up for her 2012 Watchdog award said: “Dee Ann Divis has recognized a threat to the general public, disruption of the GPS services that so...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: "Silicon Flatirons" is a program of Colorado Law at the University of Colorado that focuses on the digital world. The publication "Policy Tracker" reported on the most recent Silicon Flatirons event and its recommendations for...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: A thoughtful piece from RNTF member Mitch Narins.  This might a good time to reproduce several PNT, system of system graphics we have laying around. One was done by DOT & DOD in 2008, RNT Foundation did two, one is from...

Image: CASC Blog Editor's Note: Yep. And they can probably 'blind and deafen' the homeland as well. The report mentioned below is "2022 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China." A couple of quotes: "PLA EW units routinely...

Image: Dr. Brad Parkinson - Showing effectiveness of beam steering antenna in combatting GPS jamming Adaptive antennas are very effective at protecting GPS/GNSS receivers from both jamming and spoofing. At the recent PNT Advisory Board meeting Prof. Brad Parkinson...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This project has gotten a lot of press in the last couple weeks.  The below report in the Register is the first one, though, that points out some of the challenges to implementing it on a broad scale. They list:  No coverage in...

Image: Shutterstock Folks in the US government used to like to say that "GPS is the gold standard" for GNSS. Today, Bei Dou and Galileo are newer systems with capabilities not currently available to GPS users. Long lives for GPS satellites, extended lead times to...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: I think of myself as a pretty optimistic, upbeat kinda guy. At least most of the time. After all, humanity's arc - over the long run - has been improving. People are living longer and healthier, globally fewer are dying in...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Time and timing are becoming increasingly important. Per the article below, anything that upsets that is increasingly bad. Synchronizing locally, relatively, is good, nay necessary. But what we really need is for everyone to be...

Image: FCC Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.     FCC Creating Space Bureau – Implications for Ligado Decision? November 17, 2022  - By Dana Goward Speaking at the National Press Club on November 3rd, Federal Communications...

Image: Shutterstock The US National PNT Advisory Board adopted a recommendation at its meeting last week for the Department of Transportation (DOT) to warn the public as soon as possible when GPS services were being disrupted. The recommendation is being finalized for...

Image: Shutterstock The President's National Space-based Positioning Navigation and Timing Advisory Board concluded it's 27th meeting yesterday with a slew of recommendations to be refined and forwarded to government. One of these struck to the heart of how PNT and...

NASA Image Blog Editor's Note: Kudos to four RNT Foundation corporate members who gave presentations today to the President's National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board. In the order of presentation: Patrick Shannon of Trustpoint spoke...

We are very pleased to welcome Logan Scott to our International Advisory Council. He has long been one of our most trusted sources and we are very glad to make the relationship a bit more official! Logan Scott has over 40 years of military and civil GPS systems...

Image: FBI.gov Blog Editor's Note: We need to be careful to not just have good devices, but also need to ensure the devices are accessing valid information? Maybe timing and location information, for example? PNT security is a key component of cybersecurity. And much...

Image: Shutterstock We heard from our friend Charles Curry of Chronos Technology over the long weekend. He had a "yes and" to last week's post about a jammer company with a new product line. - Full disclosure, Chronos has long be an RNTF corporate member.  Charles is...

Blog Editor's Note: If you can't attend in person you can always live stream. Proud that our corporate members Xona, Trustpoint, Cold Quanta, and National Assn of Broadcasters are all presenting!   UPDATE: Link to meeting slides and videos here.    ...

Image: Jammerall Co. Blog Editor's Note: Our members often send us things like this. Sometimes we just can't resist posting.  If you are concerned we are spreading information that shouldn't be out there - the bad guys and gals already know. We are trying to inform...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is President of the RNT Foundation.     UK PNT: Royal Institute encourages government, Parliament slams it November 8, 2022  - By Dana A. Goward Est. reading time: 4:30 RNT...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: More is better, diversity of sources is better still. In fairness, satellites in LEO add a bit of diversity compared to having them all in MEO. And there are a lot of advantages to focusing on space. Global coverage for sure....

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: There is a lot to unpack in this short news item. NCS spokesman Kirby's response to the Russians was established U.S. government policy. The "National Space Policy of the United States" issued in 2020 says: "The United States...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: Not sure how we missed this formal announcement until now, but here it is.  This is always an interesting event for those interested in PNT. We highly recommend you attend in person or on-line! We also want to let you know...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Now that UT's Professor Todd Humphreys has figured out how to use Starlink for PNT, this seems a natural pivot for Musk.  Why fight it when you can leverage it for another income stream?  It will be interesting to see how...

Image: NIST WWV Time code generator Blog Editor's Note: Interesting that this was sparked by the GPS disruptions in Dallas and Denver. The UK, at least, has an effort moving toward a more coherent timing architecture. The National Physical Laboratory has Leo Lobo's...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We see these kinds of articles every once and a while. They make some of the points made by Greg Milner in his excellent book "Pinpoint - How GPS is changing technology, culture and our minds." On the one hand I agree. We should...

Image: Starlink Satellite - Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: It was only a matter of time. No pun intended. Congrats to Todd Humphreys and his team!  98 ft is pretty good for a start.     Technology  Companies Researchers Unmask Starlink's Top Secret; Hacks...

Image: GPSJam.org Blog Editor's Note: More info on the disruption at Dallas this week.   A few thoughts: American and Southwest Airlines said their operations were unaffected. Sounds like corporate-speak since "less efficient routes" were used and we know there were...

Image: 2008 PNT Architecture published by US government but never implemented Blog Editor's Note: A thoughtful piece by our friend and colleague, Doug Taggart, that explores the recurring question "Why, despite near-existential threats, hasn't the US diversified its...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This incident seems very similar, at the outset, to one that happened near the Denver airport in January.  One difference is that this disruption made it into the media. The government kept the January Denver event quiet until...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Modular open system architecture (MOSA) is key to the Department of Defense's efforts to move toward multi-sensor PNT and away from embedded, proprietary systems that are incredibly difficult to update and replace.  This article...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: The Congressional Research Service (CRS) regularly responds to inquiries from members of Congress with short papers such as this one. Knowing that provides us some context already - a member of Congress, likely a prominent...

Image: GPS Patron - Handheld commercial GNSS jammers used in the test. A much larger, more powerful jammer was also used. Blog Editor's Note - We posted a couple items last week about the world's biggest jammer test recently held in Norway - JammerTest 2022. It turns...

Image - World Space Week/Space Command One of our LinkedIn connections sent us this interesting poster. We are guessing that the title saying "Global Positioning Systems" vice "Global Navigation Satellite Systems" is an effort to make it more understandable for the...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is president of the RNT Foundation.   Opinion: Is today World Satnav Day? October 7, 2022  - By Dana Goward The world watched in awe and a bit of terror as the 23-inch polished metal sphere arced across the sky....