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Will the May 10 GPS outage affect farm profitability? – Michigan Farm News
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...
Study – ‘GPS Disruptions in Aviation Show Importance of Backups. U.S. and Europe may be headed in the wrong direction.’
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...
North Korea Spoofing Aircraft and Ships – GPS World
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....
GPS jamming at UAV expo – GPS World
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...
Timing is everything – GNSS alternatives from “Embedded”
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...
Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast – SpaceNews
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...
Russian jamming leaves some high-tech U.S. weapons (even more) ineffective in Ukraine – Washington Post
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....
Plus $1.5B for Resilient Military PNT in Space, Minus $17M for Everybody Else
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...
How GPS warfare is playing havoc with civilian life – Financial Times
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...
Space assets are in foreign adversaries’ cyber crosshairs, DOD official says – NextGov/FCW
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...
‘No silver bullet:’ Military will need multiple systems to back up GPS – Breaking Defense
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...
Unjammable quantum navigation tech gets first airborne test – BBC
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...
Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season – 404 Media
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...
Hobbyists Zero-in on Kaliningrad Jamming
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. ...
The next global crisis could come from the sun. We should prepare now. – Washington Post
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...
To limit interference on GPS, “we must make it a less attractive target” – Swiss Public Radio Interview
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...
Chinese companies fueling theft of luxury cars with cheap GPS-jammers: The Telegraph
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...
Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers – Financial Times
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...
Second Finnair flight turns back from Tartu due to GPS interference – ERR News – UPDATE Finnair suspends all flights there
Image: Shutterstock What's New: More reports of flights being aborted because of interference with GPS. Why It's Important: Additional evidence of the subtle but noteworthy degradation of system safety and efficiency caused by jamming. What Else to Know: Most airports...
“We need Multi-Nav!” GEN David Thompson, US Space Force (ret) at RNT Foundation
Image: RNT Foundation What's New: Video of GEN Thompson's remarks at the 23 April 2024 RNT Foundation reception in Colorado Springs Why It's Important: GEN Thompson, US Space Force (retired) has a long and deep history with GPS and the GPS community. He recognizes the...
Can we use their satellites? – Fear and Loathing in Medium Earth Orbit
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Interesting discussion at President's PNT Advisory Board yesterday (video here) about the potential risks and benefits of using GLONASS and BeiDou signals. Why It's Important: Current FCC regulations prohibit use of non-GPS GNSS signals...
Airliner Captain “I can’t fly the Atlantic without GPS” – NASA Report
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A NASA report of an airliner Captain who refused to believe he could safely fly the ocean without GPS. He also refused to believe his receiver was being jammed and insisted it had failed. Why It's Important: The human element is often...
GPS Jamming and Ukraine’s Electrical Grid – Cisco Talos
Image: Shutterstock What's New: An interesting blog post about overcoming the impact of Russia's GPS jamming on Ukraine's electrical grid. Why It's Important: GPS underpins all kinds of infrastructure, including electrical grids. If a nation does not have a resilient...
Lots of hostility in space – Secure World Foundation’s 2024 Global Counterspace Report
Image: Secure World Foundation What's New: Secure World Foundation's annual report on global counterspace capabilities. Why It's Important: We have put a lot of really important things in space. It is essential we understand the threats to them. What Else to Know: The...
UK warns aircraft about GNSS interference. Lists poss impacts – UK Civil Aviation Authority
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A recent new UK warning for aircraft about GNSS interference. It also lists some of the systems that can fail when GPS/GNSS is not available. Why It's Important: Pilots need to stay on their toes in such situations. Always good to...
‘How to buy resilient PNT’ – DHS provides guidance
image: RNT Foundation What's New: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS has developed and issued guidance about how to procure resilient PNT services. Why It's Important: While it doesn't tell users what systems to get or what to do, it does...
Live GPS Spoofing Tracker – Great site & tool by Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Image: Zurich University of Applied Sciences What's New: An interactive site that displays GPS spoofing (not jamming) in near-real time. Why It's Important: Spoofing is far worse than jamming. Rather than no information, users have bad information. This can prevent...
Russia’s GPS meddling in the Baltic Sea demands NATO action, Sweden’s naval chief says – Defense One
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Possibly the first time a government official has said publicly Russia is responsible for GPS interference in the Baltic. Why It's Important: It is a necessary first step to NATO engaging on the issue and seeking an end to the jamming...
America is losing its GPS dominance to China’s BeiDou satnav – SpaceNews
Image: China Shijian 21 Launch, 24 Oct 2021: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation What's New: Another reminder that GPS is falling (has fallen) behind China's BeiDou and this is a bad thing for the U.S. Why It's Important: It degrades US hard and soft...
‘No GPS from Poland to the Persian Gulf’ – SAS Longhaul flight
Image: FlightRadar24/YouTube What's New: Cockpit video of a flight from Copenhagen to Bangkok. Lots of GPS disruption, pilots describing systems that don't work and the things they do to compensate. Why It's Important: Lots of safety systems are disabled and pilot...
Easter Jamming: 63 Hours of GPS Signal Attacks – Location Business News
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Certainly not aircraft in the Baltic being jammed. That has been happening periodically since December. 63 hours does seem to be a record for a period of continuous disruption. Why It's Important: Disrupting GPS signals degrades the...
Israel Scrambles GPS Signals as Country Girds for Potential Retaliation From Iran – Wall Street Journal
Image: Iranian Shaded Drone - Shutterstock What's New: Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spoofing GPS in the middle of the country to protect against drones and missiles. Why It's Important: The spoofing is also interfering with domestic use of GPS for transportation....
Preventing a “Space Pearl Harbor”: Rep. Turner leads the charge – Space Review
Image: "Space Force" TV Show/ YouTube What's New: Space strategy and policy expert Brian Chow's OpEd in The Space Review. Why It's Important: America must start planning and preventing conflicts in space. Especially those that could impact our essential GPS PNT...
The Confusing Tale of NITRO – Institute of Navigation Newsletter
Image: National Guard flood rescue by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Shaw.jpg The author is President of the RNT Foundation. Spring 2024 BACKING-UP GPS The Confusing Tale of NITRO Dana A. Goward An Uncomplicated Beginning In many ways this should have been a fairly simple story....
PNT Advisory Board at 20: Still serving up big ideas – GPS World
Image: NASA Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation PNT Advisory Board at 20: Still serving up big ideas March 28, 2024 - By Dana Goward Quickly prototype a GNSS interference detection and reporting system. Implement an internet-based High...
“This is why lots of errors are occurring during flights” – Mena
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Reinforcement from an industry rep of the idea that GPS/GNSS disruption increases risk in aviation. Why It's Important: Recognizing the risk is the first step in preventing bad things from happening. When things go wrong, companies and...
Airlines report GPS signal jamming: Russia gets the blame – Politico
Image: Shutterstock What's New: GPS jamming and spoofing reported in Politico. Why It's Important: Interference with GPS and other GNSS is mostly a political issue, not a technical or engineering one. It is good to see the issue being reported by an outlet focused on...
As Threats in Space Mount, U.S. Lags in Protecting Key Services – New York Times
Image: Shutterstock What's New: An article discussing the relative PNT capabilities of China and the U.S. Why It's Important: China's far greater ability to withstand disruption of PNT from space gives it huge strategic and tactical advantages over the U.S. Strategic...
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“Experts say [bridge] collapse was devastating but inevitable” – Washington Post [lessons for PNT]
Image: By David Adams - https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/2003421467/ What's New: A reminder that rare events happen. They are not "never" events. Why It's Important: Essential systems, like our national PNT, must be built to withstand rare but...
FCC investigates Amazon over alleged marketing of wireless signal jammers – NBC
image: Various on-line sellers What's New: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it is taking action to enforce the law against marketing, selling, and using wireless jammers, including those that target GPS/GNSS. While reports do not mention anything about...
You are invited! – Reception with the PNT Advisory Board
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Daily Fight for Ukraine Spectrum Superiority Puts Electronic Warfare Front, Center – National Defense
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Discussion of whether spectrum/ electronic warfare should be its own warfighting domain. Experience in Ukraine seems to indicate "yes." Why It's Important: While this may seem a sterile intellectual question, such definitions have...
Russia believed to have jammed signal on UK defence minister’s plane: Reuters – So?
image: GPS interference in the Baltic on 13 March 2024 - GPSJam.org What's New: A plane with a senior UK government official flew near Kaliningrad. NOT NEW: Planes flying near Kaliningrad having trouble receiving GPS signals. Why It's Important: Sometimes it is good...
Is using GLONASS and BeiDou a bad idea? – Dust up in D.C. as Congress asks FCC
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A letter from Rep. Gallagher, chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party to the FCC. It poses lots of interesting assertions and questions including: An...
Position, Navigation, and Timing Weaponization in the Maritime Domain: Orientation in the Era of Great Systems Conflict – Joint Force Quarterly
Image: Shutterstock What's New: National Defense University paper with three important messages just in the title! PNT = Weapon Maritime, like other domains, is incredibly dependent on PNT. We are in a world of great power conflict wherein every weapon available is...
Time to rethink positioning technology as a strategic asset and a cybersecurity risk – World Cargo News
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Recognition of PNT as a cyber issue in maritime cargo. Why It's Important: PNT is essential to maritime. And it is a cyber issue. Neither of these are well appreciated across the community. Maritime is involved in 95% of international...
Vodafone Turkey Adopts Advanced Timing Technology for Network Resilience, GNSS Disruptions – Inside GNSS
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Insight into what one telecom provider is doing to protect against GNSS disruptions. Why It's Important: Numerous telecom applications use GNSS timing. Synchronizing base stations so cell towers can talk to each other, for example. GNSS...
North Korea Jamming GPS Again – The Korea Herald
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A report of North Korea jamming GPS signals across the border. This is the first report we have seen of them doing this since 2016. Why It's Important: North Korea uses GPS jamming to antagonize its adversaries, much as Russia is doing...
US Sees China’s Space Threat Growing at ‘Breathtaking Pace’ – Bloomberg
Image: Shutterstock What's New: More official warnings about Chinese advances in counter-space. Why It's Important: The U.S. is more dependent on space than any other nation. As we have discussed, Threat = Intent x Capability China intends to be back on top. China has...
Space Force re-thinking GPS? – from Defense News
Image: Shutterstock What's New: Space Force seems to be wanting to re-think GPS. Why It's Important: GPS is a great space-based system, yet it has it's drawbacks. The satellites are big and really expensive They are built really well, but that means they last a long...
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GPS Spoofing Crew and Tech Guides – OPSGROUP
Image: OPSGROUP What's New: OPSGROUP has published guidance for crew and tech personnel on GPS spoofing in aviation. Why it's Important: GPS spoofing in aviation has seen a huge uptick, especially in the middle east, Ukraine, and the Baltic. It has also started...
Russia Jamming in the Arctic & DOD Arctic Strategy – is PNT MIA?
Image: Map of Arctic, U.S. Department of Defense What's New: Department of Defense Arctic Strategy that hardly mentions PNT. It does say: In addition to nuclear, conventional, and special operations threats, Russia seeks to carry out lower level destabilizing...
Vulnerable GPS Systems Are Being Attacked Daily – AI Tech Report
Image: SKAI Data Services, 31 Aug 2024 What's New: An article by Mr. Roboto, an AI program. This is the second time we have posted something written by AI... as far as we know... The first was what we got when we asked Microsoft's co-pilot AI to write three...
If not GNSS, then what? – GPS World
Image: GPS III Lockheed Martin What's New: A thought piece by RNTF member Mitch Narins. Why It's Important: He raises the issue of some folks focusing on GNSS, others on PNT and ensuring users have it. What Else to Know: We are glad to see more non-GNSS papers and...