Image Shutterstock What's new: An item demonstrating the U.S. isn't the only country that is or should be concerned about Beidou and its use as a tool for hard and soft power. Why it's important: Beidou has surpassed GPS in many ways, including having more satellites...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A paper "Towards a Structural Framework for PNT Situational Awareness" by Andy Proctor that should be of interest to everyone in the community. Why it's important: Before you solve a problem, you need to realize you have one and its...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A comprehensive article in Wired that discusses the need for government leadership a lot more than most similar pieces. Why it's important: Government leaders' concern, and most importantly action, are the only way the U.S. or any other...

Image: RNT Foundation The author of this article is president of the RNT Foundation. UK Moving Ahead, Wants Input on eLoran Program June 2, 2025 By Dana A. Goward System to be govt-owned, contractor-operated. The United Kingdom is continuing on its path toward having...

Image: Shutterstock The author of the below is President of the RNT Foundation. May 28, 2025 By Dana A. Goward Two federal efforts have been put on hold and experts with years of expertise in the PNT industry have retired, all changes that could affect the industry...

image: Advanced Navigation What's new: An impactful short video from Australian company Advanced Navigation. Why it's important: People love data, but usually only act based on trauma or emotionally impactful stories. This short video tells such a story. What else to...

Image: NOAA What's new: Another report on jamming and spoofing impacts to maritime, and an article on how maritime must adapt. Why it's important: 95% of the world's trade moves by sea. Disruptions to maritime can have a global impact. Unlike aviation, maritime does...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: Increasing concern about the vulnerability of almost all of America's infrastructure  - not just GPS. Why it's important: It highlights how fragile systems have become without adequate protections for primary systems or backups if they...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: An item in The Economist that covers a lot of familiar ground (though good reminders) and also speculates that China or President Trump may threaten or actually deny use of GPS/ other GNSS to other countries as a way to influence their...

Senator Cruz “...in these divided times it is…nice to see there are areas we can come together and work on with bipartisan cooperation.” Six years ago we celebrated with Senator's Cruz and Markey their sponsorship and passage of a bill requiring the establishment of a...

Image: Shuterstock What's new: A letter to the editor from Gen. William Shelton, USAF (ret) rebutting an Op-ed by new NextNav board member RADM Shelby, USN (ret). Why it's important: NextNav has an extensive lobbying and media campaign to persuade the FCC to grant it...

Image: NASA What's new: Two articles this week reminding us that severe solar activity that can destroy things in space and many things on earth is an ever-present threat. Why it's important: PNT and GPS are essential.  We need to protect them against all threats....

image: Stanford Univ. What's new: An item about our colleague Ramsey's comments in Munich and his important reminder to understand ALL the ways GPS impacts your systems, regardless of if you are in aviation, maritime, telecommunications, industrial production, or any...

Image: Skytruth - AIS circle spoofing off Pt. Reyes, CA What's new: Windward's quarterly update on maritime spoofing. Why it's important: While interference with aviation gets the most press, maritime is also vulnerable and impacted. Spoofing can, and has, caused...

Image: John Hartzel What's new: A fairly comprehensive article by our colleague, Fred George in Aviation Week. Why it's important: Aviation is feeling the brunt of GPS jamming and spoofing, and has had the first documented fatalities as a consequence. So we know lives...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A stark example of the things that can go wrong as a result of spoofing. Why it's important: Spoofing and jamming can result in all kinds of bad things including ships being hijacked, cargo being stolen, and people being killed. What...

image: Shutterstock What's new: A NATO news release that it is doing something (?) about GPS jamming and spoofing in civil aviation. Why it's important:  Jamming and spoofing can contribute to accidents and people getting killed. As examples: A passenger aircraft that...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A representative from DLR at the Munich Satnav Summit describing German resilient PNT in terms of improvements to space-based services. Why its important: Sufficient PNT resilience requires diverse delivery methods, one of which can be...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A reminder and concise summary of issues from Diana Furchtgott-Roth at the Heritage Foundation. Why it's important: This huge national security threat has yet to be acknowledged by the U.S. administration, or any other western...

Image: US DOT and DOD What's new: An op-ed in GPS World by PNT expert Jules McNeff. Why it's important: It's an important topic. Especially as our dependence on GPS in the U.S. continues to grow, and threats continue to increase. Jules has deep experience and...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A report about how the UK is leading the west in resilient PNT. Why it's important:  Systems - There is no silver bullet. But at the same time governments can't pay for and incorporate dozens of systems. They need to ensure there is a...

Image: European Navigation Conference What's new: ENC is coming up soon with a great line up of speakers and panels. Why it's important: It is one of the world's leading forums for PNT issues. And PNT, we understand, is really important.  What else to know: We have...

Image: Boltobee & RNT Foundation What's new: We are very pleased to announce Holly Beyhl as the foundation's new Marketing and Membership Manager. Holly has over 15 years’ experience creating graphics and websites, crafting compelling visual narratives and...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The RNT Foundation submitted comments to the FCC's Notice of Inquiry "Promoting the Development of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Technologies and Solutions."  Why it's important: The FCC has become interested in PNT in a big way...

Opening Comments at Defense Strategies Institute's Assured PNT Summit 23 April 2025 National Housing Center, Washington, D.C. Good morning and welcome to year five!  For those of you who I haven’t met, I am Dana Goward and I am privileged to serve as the President of...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: More concerns and focus on Russia deploying space-based nuclear weapons. Why it's important: The West, and especially the U.S., relies on space more than do Russia and China. A space-based nuclear weapon could be effectively used as a...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The Secure World Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies will discuss their annual reports on threats to space assets. Why it's important: Once thought a safe haven for our most important assets, space is now a...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The five+ hour seminar debriefing Jammerfest 2024 is now available on YouTube. Why it's important: Jammertest is unique in the world and explores ways to make navigation and positioning systems, and especially GNSS receivers, more...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: An Op-Ed by the Security Industry Association about NextNav's petition before the FCC. Why it's important:  If the FCC approves the petition, every company that offers PNT services or systems will be put on the back burner by the...

Image: Shutterstock The below is an excellent summary of a conversation I had with Inside GNSS publisher Richard Fischer about the way forward for PNT in the U.S. Thanks to Richard for this piece and permission to reproduce it in its entirety here.   Preview: The...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: Turkiye's project to establish a regional satellite navigation system using cubesats is progressing. Why it's important: The project reflects the desire of many countries to have their own, sovereign, PNT system. For Turkiye, it is also...

Image: Geely satellites - Geely Global What's new: An interesting look at Chinese space strategy and activities. It includes a discussion of Geely's centimeter-level PNT service designed to support autonomous vehicles. Why it's important: Everything is connected to...

Image: "Space Force" TV series via YouTube What's new: The Secure World Foundation has released its annual "Global Counterspace Capabilities" report. It has loads of new info and updates. Things like info on Iran's Hoda local positioning system (we have seen pictures...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A demonstration combining two terrestrial PNT systems - the Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) and eLoran. Why it's important: The two systems can support each other synergistically and provide a very robust alternative to GPS for the...

Image: FCC, Chairman Carr at recent meeting What's new: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking a vast amount of information about positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) policies and systems from the public. Why it's...

Image: USAF-2d-Lt-Jacob-Lutz-AFRL-RV What's new: The first U.S. experimental navigation satellite in almost 50 years is delayed yet again. Why it's important: Results from the experiments planned will be delayed, as will any follow-on improvements to satellite...

Image: MaritimeTraffic.com Great post last week on LinkedIn by Lorentz Ryan, Managing Director at AD Navigation AS. "Total navigational mayhem entering Gulf of Gdansk this morning. Strong GNSS spoofing attack taking place. This is "sending" most ships all around the...

Image: Shutterstock Thanks to RNT Foundation member Guy Buesnel for bringing the joint statement to our attention! The author of the below is foundation President, Dana A. Goward. UN agencies denounce GNSS interference Est. reading time: 2:30 March 26, 2025  - By Dana...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: Continuing discussion of PNT and cyber. While interference with signals (jamming, spoofing, meaconing) is a cyber attack, GNSS receivers and other PNT equipment are also IT devices which can be interfered via other cyber vectors. Why...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: More evidence of the continuing spread of spoofing. Why it's important: Spoofing is dangerous, increasingly easy, and there are lots of reasons to do it. Including just on a whim because a hacker is bored. What else to know: The article...

Image: SKAI Data Services What's new: A white paper from the folks who developed and deployed the site tracking spoofing in real-time. Why it's important: Situational awareness is essential if you are going to start to mitigate any risk or problem. Also, the white...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: An Op-Ed on the FCC's PNT inquiry and NextNav's petition from RNT Foundation board member GEN William Shelton, USAF (ret). Why it's important: A number of bad things would happen if the FCC were to grant NextNav's petition: It would be...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: An Op-Ed about the Defense Department's efforts with resilient PNT. Why it's important: The author makes a number of excellent points about the department's lack of focus and leadership in PNT.  What else to know: GAO has said similar...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for comments about how to align its PNT Profile process with its Cybersecurity efforts. Why it's important: A least a couple reasons. First, it is good to have these...

Image: RNT Foundation What's new: While visiting Ragusa, Italy, we discovered a way of marking the hours of the day we had not heard of before - Italic hours which count the number of hours since the last sunset. Why it's important: Timekeeping has been essential to...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A report that GPS-enabled terrain warning saved the lives of 190 airline passengers on the 2nd of February. Why it's important: This incident shows how important these safety systems are, and the criticality of them working properly....

Image: Aftermath of collision between Portuguese-flagged container ship Solong and oil tanker Stena Immaculate chartered to U.S. Navy. Source - social media via CNN UPDATE: An AIS reconstruction of the Solong/Stena Immaculate collision seems to show no GPS spoofing or...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The organization Public Policy Polling surveyed 1,133 registered voters about the need for a backup system for GPS. Despite using a series of VERY leading questions in an attempt to persuade voters of the need, less than half of...

Image: Shutterstock Just a reminder that it's not only the Russians and Chinese. Every nation practices electronic warfare. Every nation needs a PNT architecture that is as robust and resilient as possible to guard its population against tactical and strategic...

Image: Argonne National Laboratory What's new: The president has nominated Sean Plankey to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at DHS. Why it's important: CISA is the agency at DHS that coordinates/ leads PNT issues for the department....