Image: Historic Master Clock at NIST museum in Gaithersburg, MD (RNT Foundation) Blog Editor's Note: It is essential that we secure precise time and sync for our critical infrastructure, AND for everyone else. The US government established precise time as a utility...

Blog Editor's Note: The below is the latest announcement from South Korea on its efforts to establish a sovereign and resilient PNT system.  It builds on other releases we have passed along previously. See for example here and here. Notice the "advantage" South Korea...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Aviation is somewhat unique among modes of transportation as it has an alternate PNT system for when GPS is not available. It is a network of short range terrestrial beacons of VORs, DMEs, and TACANs (TACAN is military only)....

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The greatest threat from space debris is unquestionably at LEO. Many in the PNT community have considered GPS, Galileo, and other GNSS at MEO relatively safe from debris. It seems that ain't necessarily so.  Papers on debris at...

Image: AP, Vessel Finder Blog Editor's Note: The below press report discounts this being a prank by the Vessel Finder site, and seems to assume the ship actually sailed this pattern before entering the Suez Canal and getting stuck. Our readers will quickly guess the...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A very complete summary of where the issue stands today. We are particularly glad to see the comments by Rep John Garamendi who has championed this issue for years.  This article is reprinted with permission of Warren...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We always find something of interest in Bob Poole's "Aviation Policy News" from the Reason Foundation. This month it is a note he received from a colleague about the FAA and navigation. Bob published in his "Quotable Quotes"...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: It is good to see industry coming together like this. RNT Foundation decided to sign this letter with members of industry, some of which are our members, some are not, because it does not promote an individual technology or...

Blog Editors' Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. What Trump Got Wrong About Protecting GPS Users and America By Dana A. Goward, President, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation MARCH 22, 2021 01:00 PM ET The Global Positioning System has become...

Image: RNTF Blog Editor's Note: We are glad to see members of industry advocating for, not just their own solution, but for a variety of diverse solutions. RNTF has long advocated this system-of-systems approach. See and download the graphic we first posted in 2014....

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Ms Diana Furchtgott-Roth served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation. She is an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University, and an RNTF member. We applaud her commentary in the Wall Street...

Image: Shutterstock & NASA Every year there is a 4% chance a major solar storm could damage GPS/GNSS satellites or ionize the upper atmosphere preventing signals from getting through for several days or a week. There is also a .7% chance of a Carrington Event that...

Image: Jamming gear found at chop shop. Cambridgeshire Constabulary Blog Editor's Note: We previously reported on the Mexican government's finding that 85% of truck thefts were aided by GPS jamming devices. While we have not found similar national statistics reported...

Deliberate interference with GNSS by the world's militaries interferes with safe air traffic management, poses risks to aircraft, and imposes extra costs for fuel and transit time, according to a recent EUROCONTROL stakeholder forum. 2,000% increase in GNSS RFI...

Image: Screen captures from WolvesFleet and Jammer-shop We were talking with the folks at Chronos the other day (Chronos is an RNTF corporate member). They mentioned an interesting development. Jammers that look like everyday objects. Check out the image  above for...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: DSI is an RNT Foundation supporter. Mr. Dana A. Goward, RNTF's President, will be moderating this event.   DSI to host 2021 Assured PNT Summit in April February 12, 2021  - By Allison Kral The Defense Strategies Institute’s...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author is president of the RNT Foundation. Federal policy aimed at GPS interference, critical infrastructure March 7, 2021  - By Dana Goward In its closing days, the Trump administration issued several new policy documents...

Image: Ken Wells - Cessna instrument panel with and without GPS signals. Blog Editor's Note: A need and promise to invest in GPS interference detection and monitoring was mentioned in just about all the national PNT policy documents issued by the last administration. ...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation.   Congressmen urge administration on GPS timing backup March 4, 2021  - By Dana Goward In separate letters to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and new Secretary of...

Image: Twitter Blog editor's note: "Space hurricanes"? Seriously? We knew space was a dangerous place, especially for weak signals from GPS and other GNSS, but this sounds like something from a Star Trek episode. Quantum strings, spatial anomalies, space hurricanes....