From Congressman Garamendi's Web Site: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Passes Strong Legislation Co-Authored by Ranking Member Garamendi and Chairman Hunter on GPS Backup Systems and Heavy Icebreakers Sep 15, 2016 Issues: Military and Veterans,...

Military & Aerospace June 28, 2016 By John Keller Editor How much do you trust and rely on your personal GPS satellite navigation device to tell where you are or how to get to where you're going? It may be subject to GPS jamming. If you depend on GPS a lot, then...

Editor's Note: Jammers for every budget and use can be easily found  on the internet from sites like Jammerall.com. We thought that this item from IHS was worth repeating, though. KB Radar develops UAV-based SATCOM, navigation jammers Huw Williams, London - IHS Jane's...

A CEPT Electronic Communications Committee report from 2014 that was recently posted giving practical guidance for TDD networks lists four ways to provide essential timing and synchronization for cell phone networks.  From the report: GNSS – Main source used today,...

Aerospace Corporation - The purpose of Sextant is to improve resiliency by combining existing and new PNT signal sources. (Illustration: Joseph Hidalgo) Aerospace is pioneering a study to enhance position, navigation, and timing (PNT) resiliency, challenging an...

Last year NIST released a report with the tag line:  "Lack of Effective Timing Signals Could Hamper ‘Internet of Things’ Development." In it the authors described over-reliance on weak and easily disrupted GPS and GNSS timing signals as an Achilles Heel for future...

Blog editor note: Our Google Alerts dug this up over the weekend. SAE International is the largest automotive and aerospace standards-setting body in the world. They set standards for the design, manufacturing, operation, and maintenance of automobiles, aircraft,...

By MarEx 2016-08-15 18:04:59 Defense contractors Polaris Consulting have developed a software system to use visual and radar data to compute a vessel's position in littoral waters – independent of GPS. The research was funded by the UK Ministry of Defence's Centre for...

Blog Editor's Note: Recently a video using a Rohde & Schwarz signal generator to cheat Pokemon Go went viral. We hear that the opportunity to spoof Pokemon Go and roam the world from your couch caused a lot of talk about GPS spoofing generally at this year's Def...

Blog Editor's Note:  This outstanding guest post first appeared on Linkedin and is courtesy of member Guy Buesnel.  Guy's company, Spirent, is very much concerned with GNSS vulnerability and has recently become a premium RNTF member.  Thanks for this great report,...

Blog editor's note: We think that multi-function receivers integrating diverse signals are part of the future for resilient PNT.  Good job Spectracom! "Backup" might not be the best term, though, since all signals will be available all the time.  "Co-primary" maybe?...

August 19, 2016 12:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Anti-Jamming Market for GPS by Technique (Nulling System, Beam Steering System, Civilian System), Receiver Type (Military & Government...

INSIDE GNSS NEWS GNSS Forum: Seven Easy Ways the Administration or Congress Could Get a Quick Win Protecting GPS and America Dana Goward August 16, 2016 The U.S. Secretary of Defense has said “I hate GPS” and “I want to unplug the military from GPS.” Senior officials...

/ CORY DOCTOROW / 8:24 AM THU AUG 4, 2016 GPS security is increasingly implicated in both physical and information security: from steering a super-yacht (or a super-tanker) into pirate-friendly waters to diverting self-driving cars or even unlocking geo-tagged tokens...

This is a great set of Q&A from "GPS World." It lays out the case for the R&D budget requirements for protecting GPS from jamming. Some highlights - receiver manufacturers must now: Include options for jamming. It is no longer something to simply...

AUG 8, 2016 @ 10:55 PM Kalev Leetaru ,  Contributor This past March Bloomberg offered a compelling look inside the world of election hacking in which campaigns and their supporters hack into their opponents and steal or destroy data, saturate the online space with...

IN 1967, THE SUN HEATED UP THE COLD WAR By Mary Beth Griggs August 9, 2016 Five years after the Cuban Missile crisis brought the Soviet Union and the United States to the brink of war, another event occurred that brought the two superpowers once again to the brink....

by MIKE BRUNKER 8 August 2016 Once the province of hostile nations, electronic warfare has arrived with little fanfare on U.S. highways and byways. Criminals, rogue employees and even otherwise law-abiding citizens are using illegal "jamming" devices to overpower GPS,...

Blog Editor's Notes: Really interesting article from "Inside GNSS" below.  Until now, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has had the lead on evaluating the possibility of interference with GPS services from transmissions on adjacent frequencies, like those...

By: Kerry Tomlinson Some say the rise in “location-spoofing” could lead to more GPS attacks on cell towers, drones and more. It’s not enough to play the game. Some fans of Pokemon Go are cheating their way to success. Though some players report trying ceiling fans,...

Ships can be led astray with fake GPS signals. If signals for navigation of vessels are jammed or spoofed, positional and other critical data, such as course and speed, can be affected. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und...

Blog Editor's Note: A good article by Professors Psiaki and Humphreys on how to improve GPS receivers.  One method they don't mention is protecting GPS receivers from spoofing by pairing the GPS signal with another electronic, preferably non-space, navigation signal,...

HSHQDC-15-R-B0008 Assured Timing for Critical Infrastructure This BAA solicitation (HSHQDC-15-R-B0008) is a call issued against Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science & Technology (S&T), Resilient Systems Division (RSD), 5-Year Broad Agency...

(Thanks to Dennis Bryant and his excellent blog for bringing this to our attention) USCG NAVIGATION CENTER HIGH HORIZONTAL DILUTION OF PRECISION (HDOP) ADVISORY FOR 29 JULY 2016 Users of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in an area extending to the Northeast from...

This is another in our irregular series of guest blogs, this time from Mitch Narins at Strategic Synergies, LLC.   The old adage tells us that “Time is money,” but in today’s world, time is so much more.  Precise time is the basis for safety, for security, and...

"Wait, wait - you can make your phone think it is someplace it is not? What if you could mess with GPS and do that for other things like automobiles, airplanes, cargo trackers, ankle monitors, or oil tankers ?" While the world's militaries, intelligence services and...

"The Atlantic"... "The New Yorker"... "The Christian Science Monitor"... "The Economist"...NPR's radio shows "Science Friday" and "Here and Now"... "The National Space-based PNT Advisory Board"... the new book "Pinpoint - How GPS is changing technology, culture and...

Writing recently in "GPS World," Tim Burch, Secretary of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, outlined the increased challenges of using, and problems depending upon, GPS and other satellite navigation systems in high latitudes. In a July 8, 2016 posting on...

Dee Ann Divis June 30, 2016 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving forward to establish a backup for the position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information provided by GPS. This month the agency assumed the lead in a yearlong effort to specifically define...

UPI North Korea sent 2,100 GPS jamming signals to South By Elizabeth Shim | June 29, 2016 at 11:12 AM SEOUL, June 29 (UPI) -- North Korea has sent more than 2,100 GPS jamming signals to the South since 2010, a South Korean parliamentarian said Wednesday. Jun...

Translation by Google Translate Western Edge Magazine OPEN TO PRIVATIZATION OF CIVIL SECURITY By MARENO Leonhardsen MARENO@BLV.NO Published: 27 June 2016, at. 6:30 p.m. BO: Transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen is open to let private build up a system of civil...

Aviation agency to warn North Korea on GPS jamming Jamming operations by North targeted at aircraft navigation systems in South NK*News.org By John G. Grisafi  June 24th, 2016 The International Civil Aviation Organization decided earlier this month to send a formal...

The "Miscellaneous Maritime Transportation Amendments Act of 2016" introduced today by Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) provides for:  "Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in consultation with the Secretary of...

The Department of Homeland Security demonstrated its on-going concern about the need for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) for critical infrastructure this week with a Broad Area Announcement from their Science and Technology directorate. The "Assured Timing...

Blog editor's note: This is a good popular overview of the issue, how long the government has known there is a problem, and how long the problem has gone unaddressed, in spite of a government-identified solution ready to hand. Despite massive reliance on the system’s...

Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, UK 10 June 2016 Arqiva, the communications infrastructure company, is trialling eLoran timing technology – which delivers precise UTC traceable time – from the Anthorn transmitter in Cumbria. Chronos Technology is running the trial through...

Blog Editor Update: We have not seen an announcement, but we are told that the tests described below were "cancelled by the sponsor."  Perhaps because of flight safety concerns? Gizmodo, Matt Novak 6/7/2016 Starting today, it appears the US military will be testing a...

RNTF Blog Editor Notes: Iran made an announcement about a land-based navigation system similar to the recent one below in December of 2013. Interesting that they are making what seems to be the same announcement again. The description of the system, and the visuals in...

The Mirror Fresh Terror fears as hackers trying to disable planes at Cairo Airport Nick Dorman Terror fears have been raised over Egypt after pilots were warned hackers were attempting to disable planes electrical equipment at Cairo airport.It is thought pilots are...

"Protect the adjacent bands to GNSS as a quiet neighborhood" is one of the core principles of RNT Foundation's Protect, Toughen and Augment recommendations to safeguard our invaluable GPS/GNSS services. Consequently we were very glad to see the Department of...