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 [email protected] 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...

National Public Radio has recently discovered the many interesting issues surrounding GPS, thanks to author Greg Milner and his new book "Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture and our Minds".  Have a listen: Science Friday with Ira Flatow:  How GPS May be...

05.09.16 by DAVID RUDIN@DavidSRudin If an object does not exist on a map, does it exist at all? Do you? You can see it with your own two eyes, and yet it is exists outside your world. In the early days of mapping, when much of the world was unknown, such discoveries...

"Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture and Our Minds" (Norton, 2016), by journalist Greg Milner, is a fascinating look at the history of GPS, the way it has transformed society through a myriad of unintended uses. Some interesting sound bites to whet your...

Site editor's note: The author discusses concerns about jamming and spoofing on the Indian subcontinent. VIDYA SAGAR REDDY | Fri, 6 May 2016-08:05am, Mumbai, dna The deployment of the seventh satellite successfully completed the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite...

BY GREG MILNER The radio signal that is the lifeblood of the Global Positioning System originates from a constellation of twenty-four satellites, orbiting more than twelve thousand miles above Earth. When it reaches the ground, after about sixty-seven milliseconds, it...

On the 8th of April the Secure World Foundation hosted a distinguished panel discussing the challenges and need to protect the GPS spectrum. The panel included: Dr. Christopher Hegarty: Director, CNS Engineering and Spectrum, The MITRE Corporation Mr. James J. Miller:...

Many analysts are concluding that a Request for Information (RFI) for Assured PNT (A-PNT) recently published by the Army is the next step in the administration’s process to procure an eLoran network to complement and backup the Global Positioning System (GPS). The RFI...

As we make the grid more efficient, GPS time becomes more important to keeping it going. Here is a new presentation by Kevin M. Skey and Dr. Michael L. Cohen of MITRE. Here is a graphic of all the places the grid uses time.

REUTERS, 1 May 2016 SEOUL/LONDON | BY JACK KIM AND JONATHAN SAUL [Blog Editor's Note - While maritime needs are discussed in this article, all modes of transport (including aviation) and all technologies need a complementary and backup PNT system for when GPS is...

Wednesday,May 4, 2016 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET Precision Time is becoming increasingly important in many industries. Applications and industries that benefit from accurate time include: Mobile Networks Power & Smart Grid Finance Industrial Automation Automotive...

In December Deputy Secretary of Defense Work co-signed a letter to five Congressmen sharing their concern about GPS vulnerability and the need for a complementary and backup system.  He said that the administration was pursing an eLoran timing network while...

“Accurate position, navigation, and timing is necessary for the function and integrity of many critical infrastructure sectors, such as the electric grid, communication networks, and financial institutions,” said DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dr....

The US Army published another Request for Information (RFI) for Assured-PNT Monday. One of its interesting features is that it describes eLoran as a pseudo-satellite or "pseudolite."  Pseudolites are ground-based transmitters that provide the same information and...