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...

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,...

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...

Telecommunications systems around the world, broadcast systems in Europe, and Public Safety radios and aviation ground systems in the United States were among the technologies reported to the US government as being impacted by the GPS anomaly on the 25th and 26th of...

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...

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...

By: Tom Roeder Gazette.com February 1, 2016 The Defense Department's top researchers want ground-based miniature atomic clocks to avert a global catastrophe if the orbiting timepieces that make up the Colorado Springs-based Global Positioning System stop ticking. The...

"Inside GNSS" Dee Ann Divis, January 29, 2016 Less than a month after Europe switched off most of its Loran transmitters, a problem with GPS satellite timing signal triggered alarms across the continent and caused an unknown number of outages, including the disruption...

"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...

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...

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...

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....

Christian Science Monitor - Passcode 8 January 2016 By Joe Uchill From a command center at Schriever Air Force Base, about 10 miles outside Colorado Springs, Colo., seven 20-something airmen are responsible for safeguarding global financial markets, international...

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...

Loran signals from France, Norway, Denmark and Germany were terminated on the 31st of December 2015 in accordance with longstanding plans. The United Kingdom's signal is still on air being transmitted from their facility at Anthorn. Signals were terminated as a result...

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...

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...

The recent Volcker Alliance paper "Vision + Action = Faithful Execution - Why Government Daydreams and How to Stop the Cascade of Breakdowns that Now Haunts It" should be a wake-up call for anyone who cares about America. It documents the increasing rate of major...

In letters dated the 8th of December, Department of Defense Deputy Secretary Robert Work and Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Victor Mendez informed five members of Congress that the administration is working on a "near-term solution" to address...

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...

France and Norway remain resolute in their determination to surrender their national sovereignty and increase their exposure to attacks on critical infrastructure from criminals and terrorists with easily obtainable $300 devices. Time and locations services from...

"U.S. critical infrastructure sectors are increasingly at risk from a growing dependency on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for space-based position, navigation, and timing (PNT)." So begins the US Department of Homeland Security's 2012 "Risks to US Critical...

GPS World, On-Line Edition November 2015 A short article on broadcast times and the nature of the research.

FCW.com By Sean Lyngaas Nov 16, 2015 Quote of Note: Adversaries seek "to manipulate the information that we see so it's hard to determine the integrity of that," Crall said. "That is the most dangerous course of action because when you're looking at position,...

GNSS jamming is a significant problem in Europe and is getting worse, according to Pieter De-Smet, Policy Officer at the European Commission. In a presentation to the US national PNT Advisory Board meeting in Boulder, Colorado yesterday, De-Smet said that the EU's...

The below article provides another example of the importance of time and hence the need for multiple, independent, secure and resilient sources. As a side note - one of RNTF's biggest supporters first became interested in us because he was looking for an independent...

The US Secretary of Defense has announced he wants to “unplug the military from GPS.” The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) website says that “Military use of GPS has evolved from a strategic advantage… to a vulnerability.” Taking this to heart, the US...

The GLA are investigating the potential transition of UK/European eLoran services to a fully commercial operation. The General Lighthouse Authorities are seeking a viable solution which could provide eLoran as a sustainable and cost-effective backup system for GPS -...

Seeing stars, again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation By Tim Prudente Capitol Gazette 12 October 2015 The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the...

The annual ITSF Conference is coming up from 2 to 5 November in Edinburgh, UK. This year's program includes numerous discussions of threats, vulnerabilities, and what companies can do about them.

World renown GPS and resiliency expert Logan Scott will be leading a free webinar this week. This event will be of great interest to all RNTF members and others who follow PNT issues. Here's the details and a link to register October 15, 2015 | 1400-1500 EDT...