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Ukraine Is Spoofing Russian Drones Out Of The Sky – Forbes
Image: Drone crash caused by GPS interference - UK Civil Aviation Authority What's New: First report we have seen about Ukraine using spoofing. To be expected, but now its in the open. Why It's Important: It is an affirmation that this goes on all the time on all...
Farmers ‘crippled’ by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt – Sydney Morning Herald
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A commercial satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) that enabled highly precise (2 cm) GPS positioning failed. This was NOT a problem with GPS. Why it's Important: Precise navigation has meant huge savings in fertilizer,...
GPS jamming defeating US weapons in Ukraine – Leaked documents
Image: HIMARS - Shutterstock What's New: Leaked classified documents show Russian jamming GPS signals significantly impacts US weapons in Ukraine. Most of the media has focused on JDAM "smart bombs." Other GPS-guided systems like the M270 and HIMARS seem to be...
Who can damage, destroy in space? More than you think – 2023 report by Secure World Foundation
Image: Shutterstock What's New: An annual report on counterspace capabilities of various nations by our friends at Secure World Foundation Not just the usual suspects. The report includes info on Australia, South Korea, Japan, France, the UK, among others. Why its...
Commercial LEO PNT inches closer with TrustPoint Launch
Image: Shutterstock What's New: TrustPoint launched the "First Commercially-Funded, Purpose-Built PNT Microsatellite." Why Its Important: PNT from space has always been an expensive and government-sponsored effort. Several companies have been formed to provide PNT...
New dangers in space – CSIS threat assessment 2023
What's New: CSIS released their annual Space Threat Assessment yesterday. Lots of focus on Russia attacking Ukraine, of course. And the other usual players - China, Iran, North Korea, India. GPS is mentioned 37 times. New insight: Use of commercial space by Ukraine...
Increasing GNSS interference: UK and EU warn aviation – GPS World
Image: Shutterstock Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. Increasing GNSS interference: UK and EU warn aviation Est. reading time: 2:30 April 11, 2023 - By Dana Goward “Since February 2022, there has been an increase in jamming and/or possible spoofing...
GPS Jamming in Israel Spikes Amid Regional Flare-up – HAARETZ
Image: GPSJam.org What's New: Even more interference with GNSS in the mid-east. - Go figure. Note the reports of earlier instances of spoofing also. We wonder if the impacts were only felt in aviation? No mention in the article. On the ground were Uber, Lyft still...
Europe takes a look at Alternate PNT
What's New: Last month the EU released its report on its alternative PNT demonstration project. Why it's Important: The project, begun in 2020, examined technologies from 6 different companies. It confirmed there are mature technologies capable of providing time and...
China & Russia Threats to U.S. Satellites – Recent DNI Report
Image: Director National Intelligence What's New: The Director of National Intelligence's 2023 Threat Assessment reinforced existing info about the threats by Russia and China against our space-based assets. Why its Important: China and Russia have alternatives to...
Software Attacks on GPS/GNSS Receivers – Industrial Cyber
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Increasing discussion of GPS/GNSS receivers as computers and vulnerable to software attacks. Why It's Important: This is yet another vulnerability for equipment and users that access weak, easily imitated GNSS signals. What Could,...
More on China’s No-fail PNT
Image: US Coast Guard What's New: Well, the paper below is from last year, but our alert member Jens just discovered and sent it to us. This is the most recent in a series of papers documenting and supporting China's expansion of eLoran into the western part of the...
Northern Norway fights for title of “World Jamming Capital”
Image: GPSPatron Northern Norway seems to be a hotbed of GNSS jamming. We have seen regular reports of interference from Russia across the border. Yesterday the folks at GPSPatron reported more jamming there again. And recently the Norwegian government announced it...
Crewless container ships (and oil spills?) appear on the horizon
Image: Shutterstock (and is that an oil spill?) What's New: Maritime is getting ever closer to autonomous operation. Why its Important: Except for China, needed navigation systems are not in place to do this safely. Safe automatic navigation will require a layered...
99.9% Not Good Enough for Urban Drones – Prof. Todd Humphreys
Image: Univ of Texas Blog Editor's Note: If commercial aviation had a 99.9% safety record, in a normal year there would be 4,000 plane crashes around the world every day. That's why each component of a safety of life system is built to the most rigorous of standards...
Gone in seconds! Car thieves in Delhi using jammers to render GPS ineffective – Times of India
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This is not the first of these we have seen. Even more dramatic were reports we have forwarded you about a Scottish criminal gang using all kinds of jammers to run drugs and commit heinous acts, and devices being found in the...
Near loss of aircraft, major disruptions at Denver and Dallas – One page grabbers
Image: Shutterstock We have been talking with aviation folks in Congress and elsewhere about the impact of GPS disruption on aviation. Here are three one-pagers we have been using. Feel free to distribute and use yourself! Click on each to download. For more on each...
We Need GPS Alternatives ASAP – DOD CIO (Defensescoop)
Image: US Navy/DVIDS, DOD CIO John Sherman and USAF LGEN Robert Skinner What's New: The Department of Defense CIO said adversaries are going attack GPS on the first day of any conflict. Getting alternatives now is a high priority, Why it's Important: The CIO is the...
Locata Ticks all the Boxes in EU Demo
Image: Locata/US Air Force Full Disclosure - Locata is a corporate member of the RNT Foundation. What's New: The EU finally published the results of its evaluation of seven APNT different technologies. Of those evaluated, Locata was the only one that satisfied all of...
China Using Full Spectrum of Nav Warfare
Image: Shutterstock What's New: China understands the criticality of navigation warfare to every element of national power. And they are using it. Why it's Important: U.S. influence and power around the world are fading compared to China. Sadly. U.S. officials: Have...
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PNT left out of National Cyber Strategy – ION Newsletter
What's the news: National Cybersecurity Strategy doesn't recognize PNT as a critical component of cyber. Why it's important: IT systems use PNT feeds for data and to operate systems. Most PNT inputs are GPS-based. GPS signals are very easy to deny or imitate (hack)....
Space Junk Endangering GPS, Galileo, other GNSS
Image: European Space Agency What's New: Europe's concern about the increasing amount of dangerous debris in space threating Galileo, GPS and other satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). What to Know: There are MILLIONS, maybe tens of millions, of pieces of debris in...
GNSS Security Attack Vectors in National Critical Infrastructure – Chronos Technology
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A summary of various cyber attack vectors using GPS/GNSS by long-time RNTF member Chronos. Why It's Important: There has been a long standing debate in government as to whether PNT disruption is an electronic warfare or cyber problem....
An Intelligence Officer’s Perspective on China – RADM Studeman, USN
Department of Defense Image What's New: We included this as part of another post last week, but decided it was too important to be buried as part of something else. A great perspective on: China deliberately, over the long haul, using every lever of national power and...