Inside GNSS, Dee Ann Divis 31 Dec 2014 New competitive demands and regulatory requirements are driving financial firms around the world to use highly precise timestamps on incoming information and transactions, a trend likely to push firms to adopt a common time...

The most recent edition of US Coast Guard's journal of safety and security at sea, "Proceedings," is all about Cybersecurity. It contains several articles that identify GPS jamming and spoofing as cyber threats. [big_button url="http://www.uscg.mil/proceedings/"]Read...

Navigator NL Issue 13 December 2014 - Page 21 "Dutch Pilot's eDLoran System has been ready for use since the beginning of 2014" This interesting article discusses the ponderous efforts of the EU to identify a GNSS alternative and compares it with the relatively nimble...

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://eandt.theiet.org/news/2014/feb/gps-jamming.cfm"]Read More[/big_button]

Mini barometric sensors are adding a vertical component to locations for cell phones and other devices. Article from the Washington Post: [big_button url="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/business/a-new-dimension-in-cellphone-tracking/1466//"]Read...

GPS World, October 31, 2014 By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, and Ziyi Jiang, University College London The coming requirements of greater accuracy and reliability in a range of challenging environments for a multitude of mission-critical applications...

The UK has been upgrading its Loran to eLoran for several years and today they announced Initial Operating Capability. Note that while the press reports linked below mention South Korea developing an eLoran system (announcement of a contract to build the first phase...

Inside GNSS 30 October 2014 By Dee Ann Divis Prodded by Congress, the federal government is reexamining its decision to abandon eLoran, a network of ground stations capable of supplying essential timing and positioning data to power, phone, and other critical networks...

RNTF members and followers that are also on Linkedin may be interested in this new discussion group. The discussion has been both lively and informative. [big_button url="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/GNSS-Vulnerabilities-8178083/about"]Read More[/big_button]

20 October 2014, Maritime Executive Magazine - Rising Fraud on the High Seas "Report first-ever comprehensive review finds data relied on by finance, shipping and security sectors is increasingly manipulated and unreliable In the first industry research report to...

Two new items in the RNT Foundation Library from Rohde & Schwarz about their efforts and experience finding GNSS Jammers in Oregon. Check them out in the "Vulnerability Assessment" section of our library. [big_button url="https://rntfnd.org/library/"]Read...

Complexity and Context: Key Challenges of Multisensor Positioning By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, Henry Martin, and Kimon Voutsis, University College London The next generation of navigation and positioning systems must provide greater accuracy and...

By Louise Tapsell, Australian Communications and Media Authority Truck drivers around the country have been educated about the potential penalties for using a GPS jammer as a result of Operation AUStrans. The ACMA took part in this annual operation, run by the NSW...

SARATOV, September 22. /ITAR-TASS/. Saratov scientists have developed the first domestic geomagnetic field navigation technology system that may become an alternative to the currently existing satlellite-aided navigation systems GPS and GLONASS, Alexander Ignatyev,...

(I hoped they have already checked our Library!) The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency reached out to industry to gauge the maturity of technology for GPS-free precision navigation and homing, according to a notice. "Current state of the GPS-free precision...

Note: Extreme space weather has the potential to cause system-wide failures for GNSS. Washington Post Editorial Board 9 August 2014 - You probably haven’t noticed, but the sun has been more restless lately. Scientists have been predicting an upswing in volatile solar...

Breaking Defense 3 September 2014 - NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: “We have lost the electromagnetic spectrum,” said Alan Shaffer, the Pentagon’s research and engineering chief, this morning. “That’s a huge deal when you think about fielding advanced systems that can be...

The Australian, 2 September 2014 An Australian prototype to rapidly pinpoint attempts to jam or fake global positioning system signals for infrastructure such as airports is expected to be ready for market next year. The system has been under ­development by the...

GPS World, Aug 5, 2014 - Two satnav superpowers battled it out aboard a superyacht in the Mediterranean this summer, as a spoofing detector designed to differentiate between real and fake GPS signals came to grips with a spoofing device previously responsible for...

July 2014 - Many modern digital systems rely on an accurate time source for their critical operations. MITRE’s Time Anomaly Detection Appliqué protects such systems from spoofing attacks that can corrupt time source signals. [big_button...

Intelligence Community News, 14 July 2014 - The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become the predominant way to obtain positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in military and civilian systems, but because GPS is vulnerable to interference due to its low signal...

This paper explores the ability of eLoran to disseminate UTC-traceable time to applications in GNSS-denied environments. It proposes the creation of a National Timescale with UTC distributed via eLoran signals. Practical results from a test programme are very...

"Maritime Professional" Jun 3, 2014 by Capt. David B. Moskoff Not much more than a decade ago, the words “maritime security” represented a new concept, especially for the commercial industry. Since then, the maritime community has responded with terrorism and piracy...

"Space News" By Peter B. de Selding | May. 1, 2014 PARIS — The British government on April 30 said a terrestrial alternative to space-based positioning, navigation and timing systems should be developed to mitigate the potential effects of outages — intentional or due...

Aviation International News, May 2, 2014 By John Sheridan Resilience–broadly, the ability to readily recover from external disturbances–seems likely to become the next buzzword in aviation’s lexicon. It is gaining acceptance primarily to describe a future world air...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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’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...

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]

GPS is now routinely being jammed by criminals, but researchers in Britain are developing new technologies that can defend it against attackers. [big_button...

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...

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]