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Robot Ships Trading by 2020

By Maritime Executive  2016-04-12 12:56:58 Last week, the Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) project presented its first findings at a conference in Helsinki, expressing high hopes for vessel automation in commercial service...

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Update – North Korea Testing New Jammers?

While comprehensive information about North Korea’s most recent spate of GPS jamming has yet to be made available, additional and intriguing bits continue to appear every couple of days. North Korea began jamming on the 31st of March and the last incident so far was...

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Is GPS Jamming the New Normal?

Guest Post by Mr. Charles Schue, CEO, UrsaNav, Inc. Over the past several days, North Korea has “reached across its borders” to jam GPS signals in South Korea. This had been a yearly occurrence for a while happening in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Its resurgence this year...

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Invitation to Special Event at NYSE: Focus on Secure Timing

Juniper Networks, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will host a special event at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, April 19, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Attend the Opening Bell Viewing, followed by briefings of why precision timing is so critical...

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N. Korea Jamming Impacts Ships, Aircraft

Contradicting initial reports in the New York Times of no impact, the South Korean KBS News Radio reported that maritime and aviation traffic has been disrupted. This aligns with reports published by the BBC and other outlets. 5 April 2016 Korea Times Report BBC...

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North Korea Jamming GPS in the South…again

South Korean officials have reported that their neighbors to the north are, once again, jamming GPS signals, according to an item in the New York Times. The report says that the jamming is weaker than in previous events and that air and ship traffic and...

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Where Time Comes From

Cool 6 minute video from the "Atlantic." If you want to see for yourself where time comes from, the RNT Foundation Annual Meeting will be on the 16th of May 2016 at the US Naval Observatory. Join us for drinks, dinner and a tour. More soon!

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Plunging into Solar Minimum: Time to Drop our Guard?

Guest Post By Joseph Kunches Most people know that disturbed space weather conditions can adversely impact GPS to various degrees. The Sun can roil the ionosphere and make signal propagation from satellites to the ground tricky or impossible. The good news is that...

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Norway, UK Discuss eLoran Timing

The following was published by the Norwegian media outlet Bladet Vestralen. Translation Courtesy of Mr. Jens Hoxmark and Prof. David Last Loran Demolition stopped By Mareno Leonhardsen Published:17 March 2016 Bø: Minister of Transport and Communications Ketil...

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DHS and UrsaNav Successfully Demonstrate Timing Inside NYSE

Guest Post by Stephen Bartlett, Vice President UrsaNav Corp. On March 8, 2016, UrsaNav, as part of the terms of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, successfully...

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DOT Advances Study on Protecting GPS Frequency

SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation, through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST–R), will begin testing Global Positioning System/Global Navigation Satellite System (‘‘GPS/GNSS’’) receivers this April pursuant to the DOT...

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Best Ad for Jammers Ever

The Metro section of the Washington Post had an article yesterday: "Robbers allegedly tracked gambler with GPS they hid on car." It gets better. There was another GPS enabled tracker on this guy's car placed there by an investigator hired by his wife. The story has...

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World Dodges GPS Bullet – GPS World

GPS World February 24, 2016 By Alan Cameron It happened in the blink of an eye. Less than a blink. Far less, actually. Slightly more than one one-thousandth of an eye blink, according to calculations. In that amount of time, one of your eyelashes traverses 10...

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More Ain’t Necessarily Better!

Guest Post by Professor David Last Satellite navigation may be the most successful innovation of recent decades among science-based industries. As the number of receivers world-wide soars past 2 billion, GPS has been joined by Russia’s GLONASS, China’s Compass-Beidou,...

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US Coast Guard Approves Paperless Navigation

USCG Press Release U.S. Coast Guard Approves Official Electronic Charts WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard published guidance that allows mariners to use electronic charts and publications instead of paper charts, maps and publications. The Coast Guard published...

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15 of 31 GPS Satellites Had Errors – See Animation

During the GPS anomaly on the 25th and 26th of January users had up to six satellites in view transmitting erroneous time signals. According to John Lavrakas, President of Advance Research Corporation, 15 of the 31 GPS satellites were affected by the SVN23-related...

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“Will Fund eLoran on a Chip” – NIST

Last week the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced that it wanted to fund development of an eLoran receiver that would fit on a microchip and could be easily incorporated into a variety of systems. The agency said its interest in this project was...

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BBC Outages Due GPS Disruption

UK radio disturbance caused by satellite network bug By Chris Baraniuk, Technology reporter BBC.Com An error with the Global Positioning System (GPS) network has been blamed for causing problems with digital radio broadcasts last week. The US Air Force said that...

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GPS Anomaly – Official USAF Statement

"Air Force Official Press Release - GPS Ground System Anomaly: On 26 January [2016] at 12:49 a.m. MST, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron at the 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., verified users were experiencing GPS timing issues. Further investigation...

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GPS Was Out For Some Yesterday

At 15:36 Greenwich Mean Time yesterday, GPS satellite SVN 23/PRN 32, the oldest satellite in the GPS constellation, became unusable. It was taken out of service at 22:00 GMT. See Notice. Although this was supposed to have been a routine decommissioning, reports from...

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USCG Issues Safety Alert – GPS/GNSS, Trust But Verify

United States Coast Guard Marine Safety Alert 19 January 2016                                                                               Safety Alert 01-16 Global Navigation Satellite Systems – Trust, But Verify Report Disruptions Immediately Do you know what...

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Were US Sailors ‘Spoofed’ Into Iranian Waters?

Christian Science Monitor - Passcode In 2011, Iran spoofed – or faked – Global Positioning System signals to send a CIA drone off course. Did it do the same to trick Navy vessels into Iranian waters? Opinion: Were US sailors 'spoofed' into Iranian waters? By Dana A....

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Taviga Welcomes Continued UK Transmissions

7 January 2016 Taviga welcomes the continued transmission of eLoran timing and data signals from the UK Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, UK Low frequency eLoran transmissions from Anthorn in Cumbria (UK) will continue despite the switch off of the legacy Loran-C...

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Tell NIST It’s About Time! – They Want Your Comments

NIST Seeking "Views on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity" We were very disappointed last year when we attended a presentation by NIST on its “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity." Not once was the importance of...

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DHS: Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones

DHS: Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones Defense One DECEMBER 17, 2015 BY PATRICK TUCKER The homeland security agency, and local law enforcement as well, are looking to harden its drones against attack, but that comes at a price. The drug cartels aren’t just...

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PNT ExCom Backs eLoran as a Step to Full GPS Backup System

Inside GNSS Dee Ann Divis December 10, 2015 The National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT ExCom) has recommended using enhanced Loran (eLoran) as a near-term alternative to GPS for essential timing data while it determines...

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Court – GPS Trumps Lightsquared

Dennis Bryant Bryant’s Maritime Blog – 8 December 2015 In an unpublished decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiffs’ complaint against various manufacturers and sellers of global...

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GPS vulnerabilities could open grid to hacks — DHS report

Peter Behr and Blake Sobczak, E&E reporters EnergyWire: Friday, October 30, 2015 A newly disclosed government report warns that the power grid may become more vulnerable to hacking attacks on the Global Positioning System as grid operators expand the use of advanced...

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GPS World “Chronos and UrsaNav partner on Loran PNT networks”

The founders of Chronos and UrsaNav have formed a new collaboration, known as “Taviga”, to enhance the resilience and reliability of the many economic and business models that depend on space-based timing and positioning services. As good as space-based services are, they are known to have a susceptibility to interference and jamming.

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“Positioning with LTE Signals” GPS World Research Online

November 12, 2015 By GPS World staff An alternative to GNSS in urban canyons can be provided by signals from cellular base stations, particularly new signals from long-term evolution (LTE) networks, since LTE coverage will be high in cities. Wide LTE downlink...

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“Innovation: Enhanced Loran” – GPS World

November 23, 2015 INNOVATION INSIGHTS with Richard Langley Quote of Note: WHERE HAVE ALL THE SYSTEMS GONE, long time passing? Radionavigation systems, that is (and apologies to Pete Seeger). If we look at the 1990 Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP), published by the...

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