Image: Stephen Dye What's New: Another voice pointing out that PNT (and therefore GPS) is a critical IT component and therefore disruptions are cyber problems. Why It's Important: This is not widely recognized. For example, neither the National Cybersecuriity Strategy...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Findings and recommendations from the President's PNT Advisory Board sent to the Deputy Secretaries of Defense and Transportation Why It's Important: The memo highlights: America's overdependence on GPS for PNT China's much superior PNT...

Image: ESA Note: The author of this article in the August GPS World magazine is President of the RNT Foundation. PNT Vision 2035 - a must read An interview with ESA’s NAVAC Chair Luis Mayo By Dana A. Goward In June the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Navigation...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Editor's intro, "First Fix" to August's edition of GPS World magazine. Why It's Important: There is a lot of technology available to improve the safety of navigation (and timing). The problem is: Many users choose to not have equipment...

Image: Shutterstock The author of the below article is President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. US dangerously behind, PNT leadership needed Est. reading time: 3 minutes July 30, 2024 By Dana Goward Describing a dangerous “asymmetric vulnerability...

Image: U.S. Space Force What's New: An update on Space Force's jamming efforts. Why It's Important:  It reinforces that electronic warfare involves space assets and no signals are safe. Gives you a pretty good idea that at least China and Russia, probably Iran and...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A report from the Aspen Security Forum. Why It's Important: Enemies attack areas of weakness, especially if they have strength in that same area. PNT is a glaring example of the west's weakness and Russian and Chinese strength. What...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An OpEd in Spatial Source correctly pointing out that PNT is an essential cyber component that could, and has, failed. And could, and has been, exploited. Why It's Important: A global problem with PNT would make the CrowdStrike problem...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: An item in Space Review about the importance of backup systems for GPS. Why It's Important: Innumerable systems, applications, and infrastructures depend on GPS for proper operation. When things go wrong with GPS reception, those...

Image: John Hartzell What's New: An OpEd by MerlinTPS CEO Christian Kotscher published in Location Business News. Why Its Important:  Dependence on GPS continues to grow and, in the U.S. and the west we don't have widely deployed alternatives. Reliability of GPS...

Image: USAF America at risk from China, lack of GPS alternatives – National Security Space Association “GPS blackmail” possible, may have already happened. Leadership needed. NEWS PROVIDED BY Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation July 19, 2024, 16:45 GMT...

Image: Stanford Univ What's New: Opsgroup is forming a series of workgroups to address spoofing in aviation and what they see as inadequate responses. Why It's Important: Spoofing has increased dramatically and is a threat to aviation safety and air traffic...

Image: ESA What's New: A fairly extensive report on what the future of PNT in Europe should look like. Why It's Important: It recognizes that PNT can't be all about GNSS or even space, but must be a system of systems. What Else to Know: The vision was developed by an...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: RNT Foundation President Dana Goward's column in the July issue of GPS World. In it he discusses how the UK's planning and governance could give its government and businesses advantages and opportunities. Why It's Important: While...

Image: ru.mil What's New: An interesting discussion that shows how NATO leaders can justify not acting against Russian jamming and spoofing in the Baltic. Why It's Important: If the interference were determined to be electronic or hybrid warfare, NATO would have to...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) updated its formal advisory about GNSS interference. The last one was November 2023, before Russia's expansion of jamming and spoofing into the Baltic region. Why It's Important: This seems to...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The U.S. Army is asking industry about "... waveforms and techniques that limit the enemy’s ability to use PNT systems effectively." Why It's Important: America's adversaries and potential adversaries have and are continuing to develop...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An interactive report and depiction by the Washington Post. Why It's Important: Such an explosion could destroy lots of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and quite possibly: Create enough debris to destroy satellites in LEO and make...

Image: SKAI Data Services What's New: Reports of aircraft spoofed near Hong Kong and Tokyo. Why It's Important: It is the first time we have seen it in these two places. It has been observed in other parts of China, and in Korea, but this is the first time in these...

Image: YouTube "Space Force" What's New: An interesting graphic article by the New York Times laying out very simply and clearly the problem for the U.S. Why It's Important: U.S. government leadership has yet to reckon with our stark PNT vulnerability and the threats...

Image: 360Radar on X What's New: A post on X showing part of the quiet, understated U.S./ NATO response to Russian GPS jamming and spoofing in the Baltic. A U.S. Air Force electronic warfare aircraft circled Kaliningrad, Russia, yesterday. Why It's Important:...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An interesting observation from David Mitlyng at Xairos. We agree and have said that "Of positioning, navigation, and timing, timing is the one ring that rules them all."  🙂 Why It's Important: Outside the community, few understand the...

Image: USCG What's New: Of the trouble reports submitted to the USCG in the last year, 80% were evaluated as "unknown interference." These non-aviation, non-military reports were submitted from all over the globe, except for South America. Why It's Important: While...

Image: UK Minister for Science and RNTF President Goward discussing UK PNT Resilience plans - Photo Credit RIN Goward Awarded Fellowship with Royal Institute of Navigation by Hon. Greg Winfree, Chairman of the Board, RNT Foundation The Resilient Navigation and Timing...

Image: NATS What's New: Aircraft transiting the Atlantic from Europe without functioning GPS seems to have become a semi-regular occurrence. "Pre-boundary GNSS interference," mentioned in the FAA note below, refers to aircraft jammed or spoofed before arriving to...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Eurocontrol (the EU's air traffic coordinator) Network Directors of Technology Working Group recently met and expressed concern that: The EU has twice sought contractors to develop GBAS Category III approaches and had no takers. - GBAS...

Image: North Atlantic Skies - NATS What's New: A report of transatlantic air traffic being impacted by GPS interference. A pilot relayed he or she was not able to proceed as they wished because another aircraft at a flight level above them had experienced GPS jamming....

Image: Shutterstock What's New:  A recent article in The Atlantic titled "One Satellite Crash Could Upend Modern Life." It discusses the Kessler Syndrome, a cascade of collisions that could make Low Earth Orbit unusable. Why It's Important: Such a cascade could...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: Congress refused Space Force's request to fund a small GPS satellite program. Why It's Important: Space Force had already used special authority to reprogram $40M and start the effort. The additional, smaller, satellites were supposed...

Image: Shutterstock Note: The author of this article is president of the RNT Foundation. Study: GPS disruptions in aviation show importance of backups June 12, 2024  - By Dana Goward Est. reading time: 2 minutes In a recently released paper, the respected analytics...

Image: Johns Hopkins What's New: A detailed discussion, not just about the Carrington Event, but also evidence of even more powerful events, and the possibility of them in the future. Why It's Important:  Electrical grids certainly need too be reinforced and protected...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An examination of spoofing on large groups of drones. Why It's Important: One plan for the U.S. military to counter the numerically larger forces of other nations (China) is with drone swarms. How the drones/ UAVs will avoid colliding...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Some introspection about GPS disruption to farming. Also interesting stats about GPS use, automation, etc. Why It's Important: GPS is used extensively in agriculture. Like many industries, much farming has been transformed by GPS. The...

GPS Jamming near Dallas impacted aircraft within 110 miles of the airport. Image: GPSJam.org To thwart increasing GPS jamming, backups are needed for flight AND ground operations. ALEXANDRIA, VA, UNITED STATES, June 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ Media Contact: Mr. Dana...

Image: SkAI Data Services What's New: North Korea has entered the spoofing game. Interference has been on-going for five days. Why It's Important: North Korea's last major GPS interference event was several days of jamming in 2016. Spoofing is a new activity for them....

Image: NavtechGPS What's New: Discovery of GPS interference at the premier event for UAV operators— the XPOTENTIAL 2024 conference of the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). Why It's Important: It demonstrates accidental interference can...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An article by Microchip's Jim Olsen discussing several non-GNSS timing sources. Why It's Important: Of PN&T, the "T" is the most important. It is used to operate systems and enable applications, as well as being essential data. A...

Image: John Hartzell What's New: A new OpEd by Zephr CEO Sean Gorman. He makes several good observations that drone warfare has highlighted both the importance of GNSS and the importance of denying it. Why It's Important: There is no going back. Anyone who thinks the...

Image: HiMARS System - Shutterstock What's New: An exclusive Washington Post report that Russian jamming is impacting U.S.-provided weapons much more than previously reported. Why It's Important:  Ukraine is suffering more in the conflict because it relied on U.S....

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The President's budget request sent to Congress.  It asks for $1.5B for Space Force in order to make military space-based PNT more resilient. It also seeks to reduce the Department of Transportation's (DOT) budget for PNT activities...

Image: GPSJam.org What's New: A discussion of far reaching impacts of disruptions.  Why It's Important: The outlet is the FINANCIAL Times. We would be interested in seeing their estimate of the financial impact. What Else to Know: It seems to us that these kinds of...

Image: DVIDS What's New: A warning from Department of Defense that Russia and China are interested in disrupting U.S. spaces assets with cyberattacks. Why It's Important: The U.S. is far more dependent on space than any other nation. It is a source of strength and...

Image: Lockheed What's New: More recognition that a systems approach to PNT is needed. Why It's Important:  GPS is vulnerable, and no one thing can take its place as a low SWAP-C capability. What Else to Know: This is not a new idea. DOD published a PNT Strategy in...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A demonstration of quantum navigation in an aircraft. Why It's Important: Many believe it is impossible to deny or manipulate a quantum nav system from outside the platform it is being used on. At a minimum, it seems like doing so would...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Two or three days prime planting was lost for many farmers because of solar weather. Why It's Important: As mentioned in the article, it shows the vulnerability of the food supply to GPS disruptions. What Else to Know: See the mention...

Image: Wayne Metcalf on X What's New: More folks continue to access crowdsourced, publicly available data to identify sources of GPS jamming in Russia.   One of the more recent we have seen is Wayne Metcalf on X.              ...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An opinion piece from the Washington Post editorial board. It talks about the danger of severe solar activity and the need to prepare. Why It's Important: The need to prepare. People and their governments have a hard time preparing for...

Image: John Hartzell What's New:  Some new perspectives on the issue from an interview by Swiss Public Radio with RNTF President Dana A. Goward. Why It's Important: The reporter took a larger and broader view than simply instances of jamming and spoofing. He asked...

Shutterstock What's New: Well... perhaps not new. We have reported on jammers and car thefts before. It has been a while, though. And the availability of sophisticated jamming and spoofing devices has certainly increased.   Why It's Important: Deliberate interference...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Political officials in the Baltic speaking out about jamming and pinning the blame on Russia. Why It's Important: This is the first instance we know of wherein political appointees have spoken out and blamed Russia. This is an...