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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...