Blog Editor's Note: We are not sure if this is another instance of Russia jamming GPS in Norway or part of the most recent spate of instances. Suffice it to say that Russia has been jamming GPS in northern Norway a lot. This is a good article as it reminds us that GPS...

Blog Editor's Note: We have reported before on the tension between the government's need to test and exercise GPS disruptions and aviation interests that can suffer economic losses and other problems. This is particularly interesting as aviation has a network of...

Blog Editor's Note: The RIN has always been a leader in advocating for resilience. As an example, they typically host a Resilient PNT forum the day before their annual International Navigation Conference. The professional heirs of John Harrison and Isaac Newton, the...

Blog Editor's Note: While the Department of Homeland Security has said that it is working on a similar effort with NIST, progress has been slow. In fact, the government shutdown cancelled a workshop that was to be held at ION last week in Reston. We had been talking...

Blog Editor's Note:  The below excellent article by Dee Ann Divis gives some good context to a Q&A response by RNTF President Dana Goward at ION earlier this week. GPS Backup May Get More Attention as Lawmakers Highlight Risks to Space Assets, Critical...

Congressman Garamendi addressing an RNT Foundation meeting at the US Naval Observatory Blog Editor's Note: As the article below mentions, Representative Garamendi is the member of Congress who is most responsible for the National Timing Resilience and Security Act of...

Blog Editor's Note: RNTF President Dana A. Goward was interviewed this week by "Inside Cybersecurity."  It is good to see cyber professionals thinking and writing about GPS/GNSS disruption. Here's the article: DAILY NEWS Government advisor: DHS is behind the curve on...

Rohde & Schwarz sponsored an Inside GNSS webinar today on "GNSS Jamming and Crowd Sourcing Detection and Geolocation."  A poll at the end of the webinar showed 82% of the 450+ participants supporting action to counter jamming. The event proved an interesting mix...

Photo: Thomas Nilsen Blog Editor's Note: Russia continues to deny it is the source of GPS jamming in Norway's north where the two countries share a border, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary. During some of the first jamming incidents Norway published...

Image: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Blog Editor's Note: In October Russia claimed that a US electronic warfare aircraft had taken over drones and caused them to attack a Russian base in Syria. The below report now says the attack was by terrorists. It...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is the President of the RNT Foundation. $15M for GPS backup demo part of Congress’ march to terrestrial PNT     Administration struggling to keep up.     January 16, 2019  - By Dana Goward Est...

Blog Editor's Note: Thanks to member Mitch Narins for this informative post. This important work is yet another essential effort being delayed by the US government shutdown. Earth’s Magnetic North Shifting Rapidly – What’s It Mean for GNSS Users? Guest Post by RNTF...

Blog Editor's Note: One of the biggest problems in the GPS/GNSS 'ecosystem' is incompetent receivers. Usually this manifests itself when the receiver is interfered with through jamming or spoofing. Sometimes it's because the equipment hasn't been updated or maintained...

Image: Norway Communications Agency - Russian jamming can be very precise impacting just one satnav system, leaving others alone. Blog editor's note: These problems in northern Norway are not new. Since 2017, five major reported GPS/GNSS jamming incidents reported in...

Image: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg-News   Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) has been named the new Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He has made it clear that his focus will be mostly on infrastructure. We think that includes things...

Blog Editor's Note: Regulus is a corporate member of the RNT Foundation. We do not endorse any products or services. We do sometimes post items from other media sources about new products and services that can help Protect, Toughen, and Augment.    January 7, 2019...

Blog Editor's Note: Some may assert that this law suit does not bear upon the technical arguments Ligado and its predecessor, Lightsquared, made before the FCC. It does directly impact those companies' credibility and standing, though. If it is shown that data was...

Blog Editor's Note: Our first question about the below article, naturally, was "What is the impact on GNSS signals and services?" It might be due to the holidays, but most of the folks we have asked about this have either not responded or said "don't know." One...

A passenger rolls away a sleeping aid as she sits with her luggage at London Gatwick Airport on Friday as flights started to resume following the closing of the airfield due to a drone incursion. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)GETTY   Blog Editor's Note: While...

Blog Editor's Note: The below article was written by RNTF President Dana A. Goward.   Telecom Standards Group Asks Govt. to Act on GPS Vulnerability December 18, 2018 By Inside GNSS The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards (ATIS) sent a letter to...

Blog Editor's Note: The below item was authored by RNTF President Dana A. Goward DHS Developing Performance Standards for GPS Receivers Used in Critical Infrastructure December 13, 2018 By Inside GNSS During a discussion of PNT issues at a workshop on Dec. 11, a...

Blog Editor's Note: RNTF member Guy Buesnel (Spirent) is an expert on GPS disruption and resilience. He is a sought after speaker who travels the world and recently gave a dynamite presentation to the US National PNT Advisory Board. Here is a recent item he posted on...

Blog Editor's Note: The semiannual in-person meeting of the US National Spaced-based PNT Advisory Board was held last week in Redondo Beach, CA. Its agenda with links to all presentations received is available on line. Once approved, the minutes of the meeting will be...

Blog Editor's Note: It's ALWAYS good to see bipartisan cooperation on important issues in Congress. We are, of course, especially glad to see the cooperation and leadership from both parties on this issue. Our thanks to Senators Cruz and Markey in the Senate, and...

Editor's Note: We occasionally publish news important to our readers in industry journals in order to reach an even larger audience. This item appeared in GPS World today.   President signs National Timing Security and Resilience Act December 5, 2018  - By Dana...

In many areas of life it's difficult to tell whether or not your GPS/GNSS signal is being deliberately disrupted or something else is going wrong. It is often much easier in aviation and maritime operations. A presentation by Spirent's Guy Buesnel and Steve Hickling...

Blog Editor's Note: We were very encouraged to see the announcement of this effort by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. We are sure that it will contribute to the PNT community's overall knowledge base. Yet there is a lot of science and technology available...

DOT Ignoring GPS Vulnerabilities — Again November 30, 2018  - By Dana Goward The U.S. Department of Transportation’s most recent document preparing for the future of self-driving cars almost entirely ignores positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) needs, according to...

On the 14th of November the Senate passed the Frank LoBiondo US Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018. Included in that bill was the National Timing Security and Resilience Act of 2018.  The bill was initially proposed last year in the House by Congressmen John...

Blog Editor's Note: This two-part report by Katherine Dunn has reached many in business who have not been aware of such problems heretofore (see some of the comments on her article on line). It is a good reminder that, while such things may seem matter of course to...

Blog Editor's Note: This bill, which passed the Senate on the 14th of November, requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a terrestrial national timing signal to provide a backup for GPS timing.  It originated in the House of Representatives several years...

Blog Editor's Note: Maritime GPS disruptions have been reported elsewhere, but seem to be particularly common in this part of the world. Electronic navigation signals from the Saudi Arabian Loran-C system and the Russian Chayka/Loran-C system are available for use...

Blog Editor's Note: Russia has been jamming and spoofing GPS repeatedly and over broad areas since at least 2016.  In the below "Inside GNSS" article about their most recent jamming events, RNTF President Dana A. Goward is quoted about the reasons:  "Russia has very...

Blog Editor's Note: This presentation at the SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques) conference caught our attention. Speaking with the author we learned that SITA tracks a wide range of cyber issues with aviation on a weekly basis. We would...

US Marine Corps pilots fly a MV-22B Osprey during Exercise Trident Juncture near northern Norway, November 6, 2018. US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Cody J. Ohira   Blog Editor's Note: The last few reports of this have been associated with Russian military exercises....

Blog Editor's Note: We were very happy to see this headline. Apparently the Secretary made these remarks at the SINET conference in Washington, DC this week. We have already heard some comments that hearing from the Secretary on this is good, but that little seems to...

Blog Editor's Note: The introduction of Pokemon Go in July 2016 introduced the idea of location spoofing to the consumer market and provided a training ground for people to practice it. While most of this kind of spoofing is done by a phone app, we also saw an...

Blog Editor's Note: This piece from KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, is a good popular summary of the challenges faced by America and other nations without a terrestrial backup and augmentation system. While not everything that uses GPS fails as soon as the...

Photo Peter Wong Blog Editor's Note: In May a drone show in Xi'an, China was disrupted by GPS jamming. About one third of the 1,300+ drones were affected and unable to keep their positions in the display formation. In the Hong Kong show reported on below, only 100...

Blog Editor's Note: When evaluating claims like this, we like to use the "NCIS Rule" - ask if the accused had the means, motive, and opportunity. The US military certainly has the means to spoof GPS, GLONASS and every other satnav system that drones might use. In an...

Blog Editor's Notes:  FCC rules require the licensing of non-federal receive-only equipment that operates with foreign satellite systems, including navigation systems. They also state that a waiver may be granted for non-US satnav signals, if the provider so requests....

Spoofing GPS – Now you see it, now you don’t! Thursday, November 8, 2018 14:00 until 15:00 EST ABOUT Russian EW ops have “relocated” over 600 vessels from their coastal waters to airports. Gamers have convinced Pokémon Go that they are thousands of miles away in...

Two recent reports to the US Coast Guard document persistent GPS disruptions within seven or eight nautical miles of the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah. These follow well documented problems in the Black Sea, around Cyprus, off-shore of Syria, and in the vicinity of...

Blog Editor's Note: This is a good reminder of the importance of designing in cyber security.  Also the vulnerability of GNSS signals, and that no one is immune to disruptions. . . October 18, 2018 By Inside GNSS . A recent General Accountability Office (GAO)...

Blog Editor's Note: Bob Poole is a regular contributor to the respected industry journal "Air Traffic Management." He has often observed that a navigation and timing system that serves ALL modes of transportation would be much less expensive for the United States, and...

Reports of recurring GPS reception problems near Tacoma, WA in the US and the port of Plymouth in the UK have been received by the US Coast Guard Navigation Center, the agency that collates such reports from the public. See reports for 9/27/2018 and 10/2/2018. The...