Blog Editor's Note: The recent action at ICAO's Assembly declaring GNSS disruption an urgent issue has increased focus on the issue within the aviation community.  One note about the below - The author says that the best form of protection from spoofing is with...

[Photo: Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, Chairman Ajit Pai, Commissioner Brendan Carr and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks.  Courtesy FCC.]   Blog Editor's Note: Another exceptional job of reporting by Dee Ann Divis. We have heard...

RNTF Report On the 18th we alerted our readers to the pending announcement of a European Commission procurement of  "an advanced interference detection and robustness capabilities system." That announcement was made last week. Information is available on the EU site...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is the President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. US Army partners with UT Austin, Texas A&M System for advanced PNT October 30, 2019  - By Dana Goward   This month, the University of Texas at Austin became a...

Blog Editor's Note: The below is a good compilation of incidents reported by many sources on this topic. We offer it as a refresher and an example of the increasing and broadening awareness of GPS/GNSS vulnerabilities and how they are regularly being exploited by...

Photo Credit: Rebecca Zia Blog Editor's Note: The author of this article is the President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. Parkinson questions long delay resolving Ligado issue October 22, 2019  - By Dana Goward Tells Space Advisory group spectrum...

Blog Editor's Note: We have seen a number of items in the press recently about the US Army's efforts with resilient and APNT. They have made a big deal about the first installations of MAPS. They are also the Department of Defense executive agent for development of...

The Kennedy Space Center and Cocoa Beach, already great destinations, will host three days of PNT events next month. ... 09:00 - 18:00: Kennedy Space Center Tours and Visitor Complex It's the Greatest Space Adventure on Earth! Whether your visit includes training like...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is the president of the RNT Foundation. EU contracting for GNSS interference detection network October 17, 2019  - By Dana Goward Request for proposals to be issued The Official Journal of the European Union (EU) will publish a funding...

So, you thought you had survived the once-every-twenty-years GPS rollover event just because nothing bad happened on the 6th of April. You thought you were safe for the next 157 years because the GPS date counter will be increased to 13 bits. Not. So. Fast. It seems...

Sir George Airy established a meridian at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1851 to serve as a common reference for astronomical observations and navigation. By 1884 two thirds of ships were using it as a reference on their charts. US President Chester A. Arthur...

Blog Editor's Note: The author is the President of the RNT Foundation UN Aviation Body: GPS/GNSS Disruption an Urgent Safety Priority October 10, 2019  Dana A. Goward Last week the triennial assembly of the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization...

Blog Editor's Note: The 1859 "Carrington Event" coronal mass ejection was so powerful it induced currents in telegraph wires strong enough to set telegraph offices on fire. A smaller event in 1921 "the NY Railway solar flare" did the same thing to a railway office in...

Image: Moon Over Miami, During 2019 ION GNSS+, D.A. Goward   The recent meeting of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee in Miami included a number of interesting presentations. One by MITRE's Dr. Arthur Scholz working for the Homeland Security System...

Blog Editor's Note: "Politico" is a well known and respected site for information about US national politics. This is the first we became aware of their weekly newsletter focusing on space issues.  We signed up to receive it when it is published every Friday. The...

Blog Editor's Note: RNT Foundation obtained this strategy document from a Freedom of Information Act request we made earlier this year. To the best or our knowledge and as of this writing, it is not posted on any website other than ours. Links to it are in the text of...

Image: Andy Goldsmith (IMCA): "Reference system signal jamming is happening in the Middle East"   Blog Editor's Note: "DP" is "dynamic positioning" a capability that some maritime vessels have to automatically maintain a relatively precise position despite the...

Blog Editor's Note: RNT Foundation Member and Adviser Prof David Last has a list of credentials and honors in the PNT world too long to list here. Below is a recent interview he did with Coordinates Magazine discussing the recent failure Galileo and the overall need...

We were saddened to hear of the passing of our colleague and leading light of the satnav community, Ronald R. Hatch. He passed away unexpectedly on Friday several days after a medical procedure.  Ron was a member of the U.S. National PNT Advisory Board. The following...

Blog Editor's Note: Spectrum is valuable and there is a fixed supply. As long as this is true there will be fierce and unrelenting competition for it.  The ultra-wideband issue's resurgence does not bode well for those who hope "the Ligado issue" has been put to bed...