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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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Lots of PNT items in the news – Here’s a sampling
Image: Air Traffic Technology International What's New: There have been a lot of items in the news recently that we haven't posted and commented on. Many are about issues we have addressed elsewhere, and some of them are behind paywalls - but you can get a sense of...
Could you live without GPS? It’s OK, the economy can’t, either – NPR Planet Money
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A 9 minute podcast from NPR's Planet Money team. Why It's Important: It focuses on the economic impact of losing GPS which is a rare perspective, and how China and Russia have backup systems. Both important messages. What Else to Know: ...
Navigation in an Era of Escalating GNSS Interference -Infinidome Webinar 28 Oct 2024
Image: Shutterstock What's New: A webinar by the Israeli company, Infinidome. Why It's Important: This is always a pertinent discussion, especially in the last year when more and more GNSS disruption has been occurring. Israelis have experienced a lot of interference...
UK PNT Leadership Seminar – 20 November 2024
3rd Annual UK PNT Leadership Seminar 20/11/2024 When: 20/11/2024 1030-1615 (reception 1615-1830) Where: The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom Contact: Clare Stead [email protected] REGISTER HERE Positioning, navigation and timing...