Image: Shutterstock The President's National Space-based Positioning Navigation and Timing Advisory Board concluded it's 27th meeting yesterday with a slew of recommendations to be refined and forwarded to government. One of these struck to the heart of how PNT and...

NASA Image Blog Editor's Note: Kudos to four RNT Foundation corporate members who gave presentations today to the President's National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board. In the order of presentation: Patrick Shannon of Trustpoint spoke...

We are very pleased to welcome Logan Scott to our International Advisory Council. He has long been one of our most trusted sources and we are very glad to make the relationship a bit more official! Logan Scott has over 40 years of military and civil GPS systems...

Image: FBI.gov Blog Editor's Note: We need to be careful to not just have good devices, but also need to ensure the devices are accessing valid information? Maybe timing and location information, for example? PNT security is a key component of cybersecurity. And much...

Image: Shutterstock We heard from our friend Charles Curry of Chronos Technology over the long weekend. He had a "yes and" to last week's post about a jammer company with a new product line. - Full disclosure, Chronos has long be an RNTF corporate member.  Charles is...

Blog Editor's Note: If you can't attend in person you can always live stream. Proud that our corporate members Xona, Trustpoint, Cold Quanta, and National Assn of Broadcasters are all presenting!   UPDATE: Link to meeting slides and videos here.    ...

Image: Jammerall Co. Blog Editor's Note: Our members often send us things like this. Sometimes we just can't resist posting.  If you are concerned we are spreading information that shouldn't be out there - the bad guys and gals already know. We are trying to inform...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below article is President of the RNT Foundation.     UK PNT: Royal Institute encourages government, Parliament slams it November 8, 2022  - By Dana A. Goward Est. reading time: 4:30 RNT...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: More is better, diversity of sources is better still. In fairness, satellites in LEO add a bit of diversity compared to having them all in MEO. And there are a lot of advantages to focusing on space. Global coverage for sure....

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: There is a lot to unpack in this short news item. NCS spokesman Kirby's response to the Russians was established U.S. government policy. The "National Space Policy of the United States" issued in 2020 says: "The United States...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: Not sure how we missed this formal announcement until now, but here it is.  This is always an interesting event for those interested in PNT. We highly recommend you attend in person or on-line! We also want to let you know...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Now that UT's Professor Todd Humphreys has figured out how to use Starlink for PNT, this seems a natural pivot for Musk.  Why fight it when you can leverage it for another income stream?  It will be interesting to see how...

Image: NIST WWV Time code generator Blog Editor's Note: Interesting that this was sparked by the GPS disruptions in Dallas and Denver. The UK, at least, has an effort moving toward a more coherent timing architecture. The National Physical Laboratory has Leo Lobo's...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We see these kinds of articles every once and a while. They make some of the points made by Greg Milner in his excellent book "Pinpoint - How GPS is changing technology, culture and our minds." On the one hand I agree. We should...

Image: Starlink Satellite - Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: It was only a matter of time. No pun intended. Congrats to Todd Humphreys and his team!  98 ft is pretty good for a start.     Technology  Companies Researchers Unmask Starlink's Top Secret; Hacks...

Image: GPSJam.org Blog Editor's Note: More info on the disruption at Dallas this week.   A few thoughts: American and Southwest Airlines said their operations were unaffected. Sounds like corporate-speak since "less efficient routes" were used and we know there were...

Image: 2008 PNT Architecture published by US government but never implemented Blog Editor's Note: A thoughtful piece by our friend and colleague, Doug Taggart, that explores the recurring question "Why, despite near-existential threats, hasn't the US diversified its...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This incident seems very similar, at the outset, to one that happened near the Denver airport in January.  One difference is that this disruption made it into the media. The government kept the January Denver event quiet until...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Modular open system architecture (MOSA) is key to the Department of Defense's efforts to move toward multi-sensor PNT and away from embedded, proprietary systems that are incredibly difficult to update and replace.  This article...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note: The Congressional Research Service (CRS) regularly responds to inquiries from members of Congress with short papers such as this one. Knowing that provides us some context already - a member of Congress, likely a prominent...