Image: Shutterstock Blog editor's note: This is important. If you have expertise in this area, you really should comment. Below are excerpts from the NTIA notice in the Federal Register. Access the full notice here. Impact of L-Band MSS ‘Direct-to-Device’ Operations...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Some feedback on how solar activity disrupted GPS signals and impacted farmers. Why It's Important: 80% of farmers use GPS in some form or fashion to raise their crops. About one third of the food produced in the U.S. is from highly...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: A commercial passenger aircraft was shot down in an area where there was GPS jamming and likely spoofing. Why it's important: GPS is essential for (1) safe aircraft navigation and (2) ADS-B the system that let's air traffic controllers...

image: Shutterstock What's new: Report from Zurich University of Applied Sciences identifying eDME, eLoran, and LDACS-NAV as three systems that should be implemented to ensure promptly achieving safe and efficient Performance Based Navigation. Why it's important:...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: Denmark bought weapons from Israel that have "civil" GPS built in. So, no M-code. Why it's important: Electronic warfare can easily and greatly degrade the effectiveness of such weapons, as the Russians have demonstrated in Ukraine....

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The Senate Homeland Security Committee becoming interested in the topic. Why it's important: DHS has a role to play, even if they are not a co-chair of the national executive committee. See SPD-7. What else to know: DHS has done some...

Image: Shutterstock What's new: The idea that since increasing interference looks to continue, every nation will be driven to have some level of sovereign PNT capability that is independent of but can cooperate with GNSS. Expediting that process through international...

Image: InvestigateTV What's new: Coverage of the issue by Gray Media which owns 113 TV stations (which all have news rooms) across the US. Why it's important: One way to improve awareness among senior leaders who can fix the problem is by educating the public. What...

Image: YouTube/"Animal House" by National Lampoon GPS is a great system. It is the cornerstone of our PNT architecture and will be for decades. We must do everything we can to protect GPS and ensure it performs as well as possible. We need more than GPS so it isn't...

Image: IAIN's John Harrison Award, RNT Foundation photo Top International Award for RNT Foundation's Goward ALEXANDRIA, VA, UNITED STATES December 11, 2024 EINPresswire.com/ The Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation board of directors is pleased to announce the...

Image: Picture taken from @whyyoutouzhele "X" account What's New: Huge drone show in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China by a famous artist was destroyed by "jamming" with hundreds of drones crashing on land and in the water. Why It's Important: The incident shows:...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Some pretty detailed info about Russian plans for nukes in space. Why It's Important: It could radically alter daily life on the planet as we know it. The weapon could cause global warfare, economic collapse, famine... What Else to...

Image: International Air Transport Association What's New: An International Air Transport Association report showing the rate of GPS loss events per 1,000 flights increased by 65% in the first half of 2024 over that of 2023. Graph from: IATA's "Global Navigation...

Image: U.S. Dept. of Transportation What's New: U.S. DOT's Karen Van Dyke gave a great presentation to the PNT Advisory Board on the 5th of December. It included information about a multi-source, global GPS interference display being developed. Why It's Important:...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced it will finance another round of test and evaluation of complementary PNT technologies. Why It's Important: There are lots of technologies out there. U.S. DOT is responsible for civil...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: An announcement by China of plans for an even more advanced version of BeiDou. Improvements will include satellites at LEO, MEO, and GEO that are a formal part of the BeiDou structure. Why It's Important: Having the world's best PNT is...

Image: Interference around Dallas Airport 18 October 2022 (GPSJam.org) What's New: An opinion piece reminding us of the need to be able to detect a problem before we can solve it. Why It's Important: Interference with GPS signals can cost lives. It can also facilitate...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A truck hijacking using GPS spoofers that made the news because it was of celebrity chef Guy Fieri's brand of tequila. Why It's Important: It illustrates one of the uses of relatively inexpensive, simple to use GPS  spoofing devices....

Image: Lord Patrick Vallance, UK Science Minister courtesy of No. 10 Downing Street What's New: Our summary of outcomes from the RIN's UK PNT Leadership Seminar last week. Why It's Important: Several significant announcements. They are doing stuff! What Else to Know:...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: An announcement by Hellen Systems and Arqiva that they are offering a commercial eLoran service in the United Kingdom, Why It's Important: It is another indication that alternative PNT is becoming more desirable and commercial...

Image: Royal Institute of Navigation What's New: The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) has posted a series of tools to help explain PNT and the need for resilience to those outside the community, and to help organizations evaluate their readiness for GNSS...

Image: U.S. Air Force What's New: The Air Force is making progress with it's Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) approach to navigation. Why It's Important: Building a navigation system (like GPS) into an aircraft, weapons, or other system means that to change or...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The latest report from GAO about DoD's leadership and management of the GPS program. Why It's Important: Operation of GPS and its associated upgrades and research efforts cost upwards of $2B/yr. The Government Accountability Office...

Image: European Commission What's New: Another move by Europe reaffirming their assertion that PNT from space-based is not enough. Why It's Important: Implementing such a system will make participants much more resilient, safer, and support economic (especially tech)...

Image: SKAI Data Services What's New: Another round of GPS disruption by North Korea. Why It's Important: GPS spoofing causes receivers to have hazardously misleading information that can cause or contribute to accidents. What Else to Know: South Korea continues to...

Image: Voice of America Expert Opinion GPS Does Need a Backup, Terrestrial Is the Answer – But Which Terrestrial? A key effort to protecting America, and GPS by making it a much less attractive target, is to establish a terrestrial backup system. Dana A. Goward Nov 8,...

Image: The Hudson Institute/Youtube What's New: A panel discussion at the Hudson Institute, in person, live-streamed, and recorded. Why It's Important: This was an entirely new idea for lots of attendees, including some from international development, transportation,...

Image: NASI, Timing Solutions' Dr. Zdenek Chaloupka & NSAI's David Fleming What's New: Ireland leading the way in authenticating GNSS signals to counter spoofing. Why It's Important: Spoofing is increasingly becoming a problem threatening the safety of life and...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: More popular dissemination about what has been a niche issue. Why It's Important: The more diverse audiences are exposed, the greater the probability of solutions. What Else to Know: The author is Chief Marketing officer at Ubix.AI -...

Image: NASA What's New: A short piece from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Why It's Important: This paper helps raise the issue to the policy level where it has long belonged but not been considered. CSIS has a lot of credibility, especially...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A report by the Quantum Economic Development Consortium about the potential to use quantum sensing for PNT. Why it's Important: Quantum clocks can keep very, very precise and accurate time. Quantum sensors can act like inertial devices...

Image: GPS Patron What's New: These issues being discussed in more and more forums.  In this case as a spectrum  security issue.  It is also a cyber issue. An electronic warfare issue, a navigation issue, a timing issue... Why It's Important: This is everyone's...

Image: Shutterstock What's New:  As far as we know, this is the first public discussion of the likelihood China can, and Russia will be able to, spoof GPS and Galileo from space. Why It's Important: Jamming and spoofing from space can have far greater impact and be...

Image: Shutterstock Sharing an insightful LinkedIn post by our Advisory Council member Logan Scott.   An offroad paradigm for thinking about resilient PNT Logan Scott GNSS/GPS Expert October 22, 2024 My friend Dana Goward recently asked me what is the right way...

Image: Baltic Jamming on 19 Jan 2024, GPSJam.org What's New: More validation of "the new normal." The article has some interesting quotes from Gustavo Lopez at Septrino. Why It's Important: We hope this helps the idea that we can't over-rely on GNSS the way we have...

Image: Norway Telecom Authority What's New: Officials in Norway have accepted that there will be no GPS service in their far north because the Russians are constantly jamming. Why It's Important: This is an indicator of the "new normal" for many parts of the globe....

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A "Defense Matters" column in the most recent newsletter from the Institute of Navigation. Why It's Important: PNT underlies every technology and enables many DOD weapons systems, ability to maneuver, etc. Most of DOD's PNT is GPS. As...

Image: Prof Todd Humphreys, Univ Texas Radionavigation Lab What's New: A graphic from Prof. Todd Humphreys showing loss of GPS/GNSS signals by satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) because of jamming on the ground. Why It's Important: :Most LEO satellites use location...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A statement by the head of the International Air Transport Association, the trade association for major airlines. Why It's Important: The statement shows the differences in point of view and communications between airlines and national...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: The results of a war game outlining how China will cut undersea cables, attack GPS, and otherwise isolate Taiwan in a conflict to take control of the island. Why It's Important: Like most advanced nations, Taiwan has not widely...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A reminder that, even when electrical service is down, cell towers are out, and everything seems to be going wrong, America's GPS becomes even more important. If that is at all possible. Why It's Important:  Search and rescue, recovery...

Image: RNT Foundation What's New: A Chinese newspaper article that their national eLoran network is complete. Why It's Important: This completes China's "PNT resilience triad" of getting signals from space, terrestrial broadcast and fiber. Three highly diverse methods...

Image: Shutterstock Announcing the RNT Foundation Study and Scholars’ Fund Donate Today! PNT technology is great, and there is a lot of it. But without a business case or government leadership, it often goes nowhere. At the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation...

Image: UrsaNav What's New: More action in the UK on resilient PNT. Why It's Important: The UK MOD announcement indicates there is a contract for a system in the wind. What the UK does can influence other militaries and governments. This MOD action will likely presage...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Several items in the news and recent briefings about efforts that will make PNT incrementally more resilient, but are only part of managing the problem. Why It's Important: Everyone wants to solve problems. But most problems, especially...

Image: Air Traffic Technology International What's New: There have been a lot of items in the news recently that we haven't posted and commented on. Many are about issues we have addressed elsewhere, and some of them are  behind paywalls - but you can get a sense of...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A 9 minute podcast from NPR's Planet Money team. Why It's Important: It focuses on the economic impact of losing GPS which is a rare perspective, and how China and Russia have backup systems. Both important messages. What Else to Know: ...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A webinar by the Israeli company, Infinidome. Why It's Important:  This is always a pertinent discussion, especially in the last year when more and more GNSS disruption has been occurring. Israelis have experienced a lot of interference...

3rd Annual UK PNT Leadership Seminar   20/11/2024 When: 20/11/2024 1030-1615 (reception 1615-1830) Where: The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom Contact: Clare Stead [email protected] REGISTER HERE Positioning, navigation and timing...

Image: Norway Telecom Authority What's New: Our colleague Prof Todd Humphrey's speaking at CGSIC this week reminded us about an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) resolution from from December of last year. It takes a strong stand against interference with...