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Home »DLoran Surprise: European Navigation Conference 2014 – “GPS World”
At the ENC-GNSS Conference in Rotterdam, we delved into actions necessary to officially use EGNOS (giving me déjà vu from WAAS’s early days), heard sage words from Brad Parkinson, the father of GPS, and, on the last day, saw amazing proof of a claim many of us...
RNT Foundation First Annual Meeting a Success
The Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation’s leadership was pleased to welcome members to the foundation’s first Annual Meeting and Dinner last night at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, DC. Life member, Admiral Thad Allen (USCG ret), one of the newest members...
Congress Supports GPS Back-Up, Russian Satellite System Fails
Just hours after the US House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday to preserve infrastructure that could support a back-up system for GPS, the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system unexpectedly went out of service for 11 hours. On Tuesday afternoon, the...
Telecommunications Alliance – ATIS – Reassesses Dependence on GPS
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) this week posted a letter it sent to the Department of Homeland Security reassessing the industry's dependence on GPS. Important differences from its 2008 position were documented. [big_button...
AFSC Commander: Suspected Chinese ASAT Weapon could threaten GPS
From "Inside GNSS" - The head of Air Force Space Command (AFSC) told lawmakers today (March 12, 2014) that the GPS system could be put at risk by what appears to be a new anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon being developed by China. [big_button...
RNT Foundation on Federal News Radio “Drive Time”
The RNT Foundation President was interviewed by radio news while at the recent Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn conference on Homeland Security this week.
SENTINEL Report on Emerging Threat From Low-Cost Jammers
Chronos Technology SENTINEL project was supported by the United Kingdom Technology Strategy Board (TSB). "Its roots lie in an earlier TSB-supported project, GAARDIAN. SENTINEL set out to examine various aspects of the emerging threat from low-cost...
House Committee Moves to Block Loran-C Teardowns To preserve for possible use in GPS backup system
Inside GNSS - Lawmakers overseeing the Coast Guard approved language this week that would stop the agency from dismantling facilities needed for eLoran, a proposed system that has gained wide support as a backup in case GPS signals are jammed, blocked, spoofed, or...
GPS creator Brad Parkinson calls for tougher penalties for satellite blockers
The Guardian - GPS creator Brad Parkinson calls for tougher penalties for satellite blockers. Fines for blocking GPS signals need to be toughened up to include jail sentences, say inventor of navigation system [big_button...
GPS Pioneer Warns on Network Vulnerability
GPS pioneer warns on network’s security BY: SAM JONES and CAROLA HOYOS Financial Times 13 February 2014 The Global Positioning System helps power everything from in-car satnavs and smart bombs to bank security and flight control, but its founder has warned that it is...
New, More Powerful Jammers Block GPS and Galileo
The inventor of GPS is calling for a more robust system as evidence is released of new, more powerful jamming devices being used by criminal gangs. [big_button url="http://gpsworld.com/protect-toughen-augment-words-to-the-wise-from-gps-founder/"]Read More[/big_button]
UK Pioneers New Technology to Combat GPS Jamming
GPS is now routinely being jammed by criminals, but researchers in Britain are developing new technologies that can defend it against attackers. [big_button...
Draft Bill Directs Report on GPS Backup, Preserves Loran Infrastructure, Provides for eLoran Cooperative Agreement
The US Congress' House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee considered the 2014 US Coast Guard Authorization Act today. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), chair of the committee's Coast Guard and Marine Transportation subcommittee, offered an amendment, which...
RNT Foundation Testifies Before Congress (Video)
On Tuesday, RNT Foundation President, Dana Goward, testified before a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives at a hearing entitled "Finding Your Way: The Future of Federal Aids to Navigation." During the hearing there was substantial discussion of the need...
Reader Feedback
Interesting feedback from readers on January's "GPS World" article about RNT Foundation's proposal for a public-private-partnership [big_button url="http://gpsworld.com/out-in-front-complements-of-the-season/"]Read More[/big_button]
U.S. Forces Prepare for a ‘Day Without Space’
A potential nightmare for combatant commanders is a “day without space.” In this scenario, a peer or near-peer competitor severely limits U.S. forces’ access to military communication and navigation spacecraft through jamming or something more destructive, such as...
Proposal for U.S. eLoran Service Gains Ground
Trying to revive a years-dead federal program is usually the kind of hopeless task that even Sisyphus wouldn’t touch. But determined supporters of eLoran are gaining ground in their effort to resurrect the cancelled radio-navigation network and, propelled by new...
Resilient PNT Forum to be Held in Rotterdam Before ENC 2014
A forum on the need for and strategies to achieve resilient position, navigation and timing (PNT) services will be held just prior to the ENC 2014 Conference in Rotterdam. The event will be jointly hosted by the European Group of Institutes of Navigation, the...
The Low Cost of Protecting America
In the January 2014 edition of 'GPS World" RNT Foundation President Dana Goward discusses the need for resilient navigation and timing, and proposes a public-private-partnership for the United States. [big_button...
Dutch Pilots and Reelektronika Cooperate on eDLoran
Concerned about GNSS vulnerability, the Dutch Pilot Corporation have established a differential eLoran system in the vicinity of Rotterdam that achieves absolute accuracy of 5 meters. [big_button...
US Congress Focuses on Space Vulnerability in Defense Act
There were unexpected gifts for the navigation and timing community in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2014 signed by President Obama the day after Christmas. These were in the form of increased focus on the importance of space systems and their...
US Army: “Russia Hedges Bets on Satellite Navigation”
This item from the US Army's Office of Foreign Military Studies was published in their monthly journal "OE Watch" in September, but we only recent became aware of it. A short, but very insightful, piece. The "Skorpion" system referred to in the article appears to be a...
Chronos Unveils Dual GPS/eLoran Receiver
Chronos has announced the CTL8200 eLoran GPS UTC Timing Receiver, a combination eLoran and GPS Timing Receiver which enables the user to undertake continuous simultaneous real-time evaluation and analysis of UTC as derived from both the GPS constellation of satellites...
Iran Unveils New Land-Based Positioning System
The Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday unveiled a home-made Land-Based Positioning System with applications in different military, aviation and navigation industries. [big_button url="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920924000713"]Read More[/big_button]
Chronos GPS Jamming/Interference Detection Service
Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, UK, 19 November 2013 - Just six months after completing the SENTINEL Research Project, Chronos is pleased to announce a range of GPS interference and jamming detection and monitoring products and services for critical infrastructure, law...
GAO: U.S. Homeland Security Not Prepared for GPS Outages
WASHINGTON — As jamming and disruptions to the nation’s positioning, navigation and timing satellites become more commonplace, the federal agency in charge of coordinating a national effort to protect critical infrastructure cannot ensure that “essential” operations...
UrsaNav Accepts Delivery of First Production Nautel NL40 eLoran Transmitter
After extensive Final Acceptance Testing at Nautel’s Hackett’s Cove, NS facility, UrsaNav has accepted delivery of the first production NL40 Loran-C and Enhanced Loran (eLoran) transmitter. This seventh generation Loran transmitter technology is the culmination of...
GAO Report on GPS Disruptions
Use this link to read the summary and the full report. [big_button url="http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-15"]Read More[/big_button]
Arctic Ship Route May Be Safer With Anglo-Russian Radio Waves
The perils of the new Arctic shipping route, warmed by climate change, may diminish with a British-Russian radio navigation initiative, under development to shore up vulnerable satellite-based alternatives. [big_button...
Press Release: RNT Foundation Created
RNT Foundation Created New nonprofit promotes global resilient navigation and timing. [featured title="Contact" header_color="004c89" ] Dana Goward RNT Foundation Phone: 888-354-9109 Email: [email protected] Address: 4558 Shetland Green Road Alexandria, Virginia...
GPS Navigation: Can’t Live Without It, Can’t Trust It
That's the problem facing military planners as they try to sort through the increasing reliance of equipment and troops on positioning data from satellite networks at a time when the vulnerabilities of GPS are becoming more apparent. This month, a group of hackers...
NextNav and Broadcom Partner for Indoor Accuracy
On October 2, NextNav announced that Broadcom Corporation acquired a commercial license to NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) technology, a so-called terrestrial constellation that brings GNSS-like performance to indoor and urban environments where...
Symmetricom Expands SyncWorld Program to Power Utilities
Symmetricom has introduced a new category to its SyncWorld Ecosystem Program dedicated to the power utility industry. The SyncWorld Power Ecosystem aims to facilitate unified deployments of timing and synchronization in substation modernization and synchrophasor...
“Indoor GPS” Technologies Emerge as Retailers’ Interest in Tracking Soars
New technologies are emerging to fill the gap left by GNSS services whose signals cannot penetrate indoor spaces. Using everything from triangulation and flickering light bulbs to the Earth’s magnetic field, start-up companies are lining up to help brick-and-mortar...
Exelis Signal Sentry Test Locates GPS Signal Jamming Threats
Signal Sentry 1000, an Exelis product that detects and locates GPS interference sources in 3-D by using longitude, latitude and altitude has demonstrated successful results during a planned field testing event held last week at the Vidsel Test Range in Sweden....
Commemorating LORAN
A group gathered on July 29 at the Institute to celebrate the recent installation of a new IEEE plaque commemorating the LORAN, a radio navigation system created in 1940 at the MIT Radiation (Rad) Lab. The LORAN (which stands for Long Range Navigation) is one of four...
UK Will Roll Out eLoran Stations to Backup GPS
Department for Transport approves implementation of seven differential eLoran stations along the UK coastline. The UK's pursuit of technology to counter the threat of GPS jamming has achieved a 'significant milestone'. Seven differential eLoran stations will be...
South Korea To Install eLoran To Counter North Korean GPS Jamming
South Korea has been subject to annual GPS jamming attacks by its North Korean neighbor since 2010. Over that period, jamming has extended over longer periods, with the longest being a continuous 16-day attack, employing various frequencies, techniques and signal...
GPS Flaw Could Let Terrorists Hijack Ships, Planes
The world’s GPS system is vulnerable to hackers or terrorists who could use it to hijack ships -- even commercial airliners, according to a frightening new study that exposes a huge potential hole in national security. Using a laptop, a small antenna and an electronic...
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US dangerously behind, PNT leadership needed – GPS World
Image: Shutterstock The author of the below article is President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. US dangerously behind, PNT leadership needed Est. reading time: 3 minutes July 30, 2024 By Dana Goward Describing a dangerous “asymmetric vulnerability...
US Space Force is set to install 24 satellite jamming stations capable of disrupting Russian or Chinese communications – SatNews
Image: U.S. Space Force What's New: An update on Space Force's jamming efforts. Why It's Important: It reinforces that electronic warfare involves space assets and no signals are safe. Gives you a pretty good idea that at least China and Russia, probably Iran and...
“The house is on fire”: U.S. officials confront Russia, China threat to West – Axios
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A report from the Aspen Security Forum. Why It's Important: Enemies attack areas of weakness, especially if they have strength in that same area. PNT is a glaring example of the west's weakness and Russian and Chinese strength. What...
Could PNT have its own ‘CrowdStrike’ moment? – Spatial Source
Image: Shutterstock What's New: An OpEd in Spatial Source correctly pointing out that PNT is an essential cyber component that could, and has, failed. And could, and has been, exploited. Why It's Important: A global problem with PNT would make the CrowdStrike problem...