We will save you some time if you don’t want to wade through the 37 pages of the FAA’s Navigation Strategy 2016. It says: More of the same Except fewer VORs & ILS While unmanned systems are mentioned once, it is only in the introduction, and by way of saying ‘Oh...

From Bloomberg Government Hearing on State of the Coast Guard, 22 March 2017 Senator Cruz (R-TX): Let me shift to a different issue, which is -- as you're aware, our nation's GPS system is used by a number of our critical infrastructure and key resource sectors. In...

“GNSS – Is It Time for Backup?” was the theme of this year’s Munich Satellite Navigation Summit. The answer seemed to be a resounding “YES!” A conference panel charged with answering that question agreed that one or more “complementary and backup” systems for GNSS...

Blog editor's note: Great article below.  See also report here of aircraft that almost lost control due to GPS jamming. March 6, 2017  By  Guy Buesnel and Paul Crampton Several jamming incidents in 2016 highlight the increasing reliance on GNSS by commercial aviation...

Guest Post by CAPT Joe Burns, CEO, Sensurion Aerospace A major challenge facing the unmanned systems industry, especially in aviation and upcoming Beyond Visual Line Of Site (BVLOS) operations, is its reliance on weak, easily disrupted Global Positioning System (GPS)...

This is a re-post from NPSTC.org - Note that quite a way down in the post it reads "The report presents a huge amount of data, including numerous plots of test results, but it does not reach conclusions about whether LTE signals would cause harmful interference to GPS...

The Department of Homeland Security has announced an opportunity for GPS receiver manufacturers to test equipment performance in an active jamming and spoofing environment. The 13 February announcement said: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and...

Guest Post by Mitch Narins Last month a letter sent to the FCC by lawyers representing the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), provided great detail into the illegal marketing of video links and amplifiers for use by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), more commonly...

Editor's Note: This is an interesting report that coincides with things we have heard from government officials. Longtime RNTF member Guy Buesnel from Spirent will be speaking next week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco and the Oceanology International North...

At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo) questioned progress on establishing a system to protect GPS. Sen. Blunt asked DOT Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III: "Let’s talk about GPS for a minute. In 2015 the Department of...

We have seen and heard a lot over the last year about Satelles and their new satellite PNT service. Recently, their efforts were bolstered when they partnered with Orolia. Last month Orolia had an operating GPS/Satelles integrated receiver, the Spectracom SecureSync,...

At a New York Stock Exchange industry event last month a representative from the Department of Homeland Security said that adversaries of the United States are interested in doing the nation harm by disrupting GPS signals, and the threat is growing. DHS Deputy...

In this post we are pointing you to two interesting papers about locating GNSS disruption sources on the ground using satellites. We like this idea because locating disruption is an important part of the "Protect" in RNT Foundation's  "Protect, Toughen, and Augment...

Blog editor's Note: This is a good overview of the impacts on maritime and features comments from long-time RNTF Advisory Council member Prof David Last, BSc(Eng), PhD, DSc, CEng, FIET, FRIN. We have met a lot of  smart people with many letters after their name who...

On January 6th the Radio Technical Commission, Maritime (RTCM) issued its "Minimum Performance Standards for Marine eLoran Receiving Equipment." This 71 page document is the result of several years of effort by RTCM member volunteers from industry and government. RTCM...

The ATIS "Time and Money" workshop at the New York Stock Exchange last week had something for everyone. There were technical presentations, panel discussions, and even a sales pitch or two. Some of the things that we heard: 'People often buy GPS timing receivers...

Editor's Note: We really like the author's admonition to "Treat GPS like Reagan treated Russia: Trust but verify." GPS jamming and spoofing are poorly recognized cyber-security problems and show infrastructure shortfalls. Cyber-security because they interfere with...

This week UrsaNav posted their most recent results from the work they have been doing with Harris Corp. and the Department of Homeland Security to demonstrate eLoran as a difficult to disrupt time source to complement and backup GPS. Among the findings: 95% of all...

A new paper by the World Security Report says: "Critical infrastructure interdependencies constitute a risk multiplier: they can themselves be a threat or hazard, affect the resilience and protection performance of critical infrastructure, and lead to cascading and...

  OK - your smartphone is probably violating the law. It's illegal in the U.S. to receive and use other nations' satellite navigation signals. And most all smartphones receive GPS and at least one other system, whether it's Russia's GLONASS, China's BeiDou, or...

In a post last week Jared Serbu of Federal News Radio reported that Terry Halvorsen, Defense Department CIO, will retire by the end of February. While not mentioned in the article, in his role as CIO Halvorsen was the Principle Staff Assistant to the Secretary of...

Blog Editor's Note: The Washington Post just published an opinion piece by RNT Foundation President Dana Goward:   Opinions By Dana Goward January 12 at 1:40 PM Dana Goward is president of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. This week’s confirmation...

On Monday the US Department of Transportation issued a press release announcing the availability of  "Beyond Traffic 2045," the department's framework for thinking about the next 30 years of transportation issues and challenges. The importance of GPS to current and...

Friday the US Department of Homeland Security published a list of 22 recommendations for installation, selection and use of GPS receivers to minimize opportunities for jamming and spoofing.  Among them the document includes: Installation of decoy antennae to...

Editor's Note: This looks like an interesting event at the New York Stock Exchange.  We are going to attend. A similar event was hosted there last year that included a demonstration using an eLoran signal for a timing reference.  DG Time and Money Workshop Agenda...

Editor's Note: The following excellent article by Dee Ann Divis points out that the US Congress remains very much int the lead for GPS/PNT policy in the United States. Virtually every high level issue associated with GPS is addressed in the bill. In addition to...

In a Request for Information posted on the 20th of December the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate is seeking partners in a Limited Purpose Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). "DHS S&T is seeking to evaluate...

Editor's Note: Dr. Gene McCall makes several excellent points in the below article about the need to focus on an architecture that will ensure delivery of PNT services.  He very much reinforces our Protect, Toughen and Augment message. Dr. McCall also...

Graphic from AFCEA Editor's Note: The author of this article starts with "Safeguarding the electromagnetic spectrum is critical to success throughout the battlespace, but the ethos and resources needed to secure and defend this vital medium are lacking." What is true...

The cumulative effects of daily low power jamming by thousands of criminals and privacy seekers, and the threat of high power jamming by terrorist and other nations, pose the greatest GPS-related dangers to the United States, according to an RNT Foundation white paper...

Editor's Note: "National Defense" is the journal of the National Defense Industrial Association. This article was posted on it's website in December 2016 and will appear in theJanuary 2017 print edition of the magazine. In the article Congressman Garamendi...

In a presentation to the National PNT Advisory Board last week, ATIS, the telecommunications industry standards body, strongly urged: Great care licensing transmissions in bands adjacent to GPS Establishment of an Alternate PNT System to GPS, and describing the...

In a dramatic presentation at the National PNT Advisory Board this week, Mr. Mark Dumville  of Nottingham Scientific, Ltd. discussed the European GNSS Agency's STRIKE3 project to detect and classify GNSS interference. The project has a  data base of over 58,000 jammer...

The 1 December  "Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy" by the President's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity quietly slams eight years of inaction on many issues to protect GPS and PNT.  Its recommendations to do things that were required and...

Blog Editor's Note: The House Report accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act  for 2017 directs the Secretaries of Defense, Transportation, and Homeland Security to examine technologies to augment GPS and report to Congress within a year.  At the end of the...

Blog Editor's Note: Another excellent article below by Dee Ann Divis. One additional note  - the federal register notice focuses on timing, which has always been the first phase of the effort for a complimentary and backup system for GPS. It also says that the...

Editor's Note:  The below is yet another excellent article by award-winning journalist Dee Ann Divis looking at how specific lawmakers and the new administration may view PNT issues and act to protect our least visible and most vulnerable infrastructure. For anyone...

Blog editor's note: Cyber-security officials and experts have always seemed resistant to the idea that GPS jamming and spoofing were cyber problems. This has never made sense to us. Disrupting GPS and other PNT can disable end use devices, degrade or disable networks,...

The US Department of Transportation is seeking "...one or more PNT technologies to back up signals from GPS and to ensure resiliency of PNT for U.S. critical infrastructure operations."  The Request For Information (RFI)  was published in the Federal Register today....

Ever since GPS became popular enough that receiver antennas began sprouting up in the same general area they have been interfering with each other. A brand new case study from Chronos Technology shows how two GPS antenna can be 20m (60ft) apart and still cause...

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything."*   So far, it has been the same with GPS/GNSS/PNT vunlerability and the need for a complementary and back up system. Late last month "GPS World" published an item about two workshops on the...

Concerned about the vulnerability of GPS to disruption from a myriad of sources, the US Naval Academy, US Coast Guard Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy and others have reinstated instruction in celestial navigation. This requires measuring the height of the sun,...