What's New: CSIS released their annual Space Threat Assessment yesterday. Lots of focus on Russia attacking Ukraine, of course. And the other usual players - China, Iran, North Korea, India. GPS is mentioned 37 times. New insight: Use of commercial space by Ukraine...

Image: Shutterstock Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. Increasing GNSS interference: UK and EU warn aviation Est. reading time: 2:30 April 11, 2023  - By Dana Goward “Since February 2022, there has been an increase in jamming and/or possible spoofing...

Image: GPSJam.org What's New: Even more interference with GNSS in the mid-east. - Go figure. Note the reports of earlier instances of spoofing also. We wonder if the impacts were only felt in aviation? No mention in the article. On the ground were Uber, Lyft still...

What's New: Last month the EU released its report on its alternative PNT demonstration project. Why it's Important: The project, begun in 2020, examined technologies from 6 different companies. It confirmed there are mature technologies capable of providing time and...

Image: Director National Intelligence What's New: The Director of National Intelligence's 2023 Threat Assessment reinforced existing info about the threats by Russia and China against our space-based assets. Why its Important:  China and Russia have alternatives to...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Increasing discussion of GPS/GNSS receivers as computers and vulnerable to software attacks. Why It's Important: This is yet another vulnerability for equipment and users that access weak, easily imitated GNSS signals. What Could,...

Image: US Coast Guard What's New: Well, the paper below is from last year, but our alert member Jens just discovered and sent it to us. This is the most recent in a series of papers documenting and supporting China's expansion of eLoran into the western part of the...

Image: GPSPatron Northern Norway seems to be a hotbed of GNSS jamming. We have seen regular reports of interference from Russia across the border.  Yesterday the folks at GPSPatron reported more jamming there again. And recently the Norwegian government announced it...

Image: Shutterstock (and is that an oil spill?) What's New: Maritime is getting ever closer to autonomous operation.  Why its Important: Except for China, needed navigation systems are not in place to do this safely. Safe automatic navigation will require a layered...

Image: Univ of Texas Blog Editor's Note: If commercial aviation had a 99.9% safety record, in a normal year there would be 4,000 plane crashes around the world every day. That's why each component of a safety of life system is built to the most rigorous of standards...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This is not the first of these we have seen. Even more dramatic were reports we have forwarded you about a Scottish criminal gang using all kinds of jammers to run drugs and commit heinous acts, and devices being found in the...

Image: Shutterstock We have been talking with aviation folks in Congress and elsewhere about the impact of GPS disruption on aviation.  Here are three one-pagers we have been using. Feel free to distribute and use yourself! Click on each to download. For more on each...

Image: US Navy/DVIDS, DOD CIO John Sherman and USAF LGEN Robert Skinner What's New: The Department of Defense CIO said adversaries are going attack GPS on the first day of any conflict. Getting alternatives now is a high priority, Why it's Important: The CIO is the...

Image: Locata/US Air Force Full Disclosure - Locata is a corporate member of the RNT Foundation. What's New: The EU finally published the results of its evaluation of seven APNT different technologies. Of those evaluated, Locata was the only one that satisfied all of...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: China understands the criticality of navigation warfare to every element of national power. And they are using it. Why it's Important:  U.S. influence and power around the world are fading compared to China. Sadly. U.S. officials: Have...

Image: RNT Foundation Blog Editor's Note:  Always good to have our message in a different media format! The podcast includes a discussion of jamming in Ukraine.   Navigating Our Dependency on GPS The U.S. relies highly on GPS, navigation timing systems, and...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: A good article making the point that the future is GPS+ -  GPS signals melded with, supported by, and cooperating with other PNT sources. There have been a number of articles talking about NTS-3 and other systems that are "the...

Image: Department of Homeland Security Blog Editor's Note: A good opinion piece by the CEO at NextNav. We have to agree with almost all the ideas expressed in the article. The author does say: "It’s promising that policymakers, infrastructure owners, and businesses...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: This is the classic problem described by President Eisenhower in his "military-industrial complex" speech. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or...

Image: mil.ru Blog Editor's Note: SDRs are an important tool in electronic warfare for nation states. They can also be malicious tools for terrorist groups and criminals. It has been interesting to watch the news on this. Russia jamming GPS navigation to prevent drone...

Image: Senate video. Blog Editor's Note: We hope more national leaders gain such insights.     Navigation Tech a Vulnerability for America’s Military, King Urges Top General Make GPS Alternatives a “High Priority” In a hearing of the Senate Armed Services...

Image: Shutterstock RNT Foundation's March Newsletter is now available here.   It is a compilation of the previous month's posts about a variety of interference, technology, policy, and PNT community news. Even if you subscribe to our blog, it is a good reminder of...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: A recent paper from Harvard discusses China using BeiDou for soft and hard power. It says U.S. officials are not recognizing nor responding to the soft power initiatives. Why It's Important: China's soft power use of BeiDou can give...

Image: Ohio University Blog Editor's Note: An "oldie but goodie" from Ohio University back by popular demand. Just goes to show that there are a lot of options around, and we have been looking at them for a looooong time!   eDME Architecture Development and...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We wonder which country's warships could be doing this? BTW:  121.5 is the aviation emergency and calling frequency.  123.45 is designated "...to enable air-to-air communications for aircraft engaged in flights over remote and...

Image: Physics Girl/ YouTube Blog Editor's Note:  Happy Saturday! We have had some interesting, though not severe, solar activity recently. Here is an refresher on coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from Physics Girl.   She mentions the Carrington Event but doesn't relate...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The White House released the National Cybersecurity Strategy this week.  Why It's Important:  The strategy acknowledges the importance of positioning, navigation, and timing, though it is only specifically mentioned once. It asks more...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: Dr. Tamitha Skov is one of the leading experts on solar activity and the nation's best educator on the subject. Her videos and posts about on-going and upcoming events are informative and engrossing.  We highly recommend....

Image: Lotte-Camillia-Holst-Hansen, NRK What's New:  Northern Norway has been jammed almost every day this year. The Norwegian government is responding by setting up instruments to measure it. Why it's Important:  Norway has tried diplomatic measures to get Russia to...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The European Union Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) recently issued a warning about an increase in GNSS interference over the last 11 months. Why its Important: GPS/GNSS is used for navigation, approaches and landings (often), avoiding...

Image: National Weather Service Blog Editor's Note: Interesting article below by Tony Murfin in "GPS World" last week. We had no idea in this era of satellites and instrumentation there were so many balloons being launched. The National Weather Service site says they...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Raytheon just discovered new flaws in its OCX ground control system for GPS. Why it's important: The US needs OCX for a number of reasons. It greatly improves the cyber security of America's most important civil/military asset that...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: We understand the UK government has invested a billion pounds in quantum tech and established four hubs. It is not so clear what the U.S. government has done or is doing. The PNT Advisory Board had a presentation on quantum at...

Image: Starlink Satellite / Shutterstock Editor's Note: This post was modified from its original to more clearly identify speculative content. What's New: SpaceX is blocking Ukraine from using Starlink for some military purposes Why It's Important:  Starlink...

Image: GPSJam.org Blog Editor's Note: The author of the below is President of the RNT Foundation   One GPS Mystery Solved, Another Remains February 7, 2023  - By Dana Goward Est. reading time: 3:30 Ever since it came on-line in February 2022, the website...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: Commercial entity building satellites for remote proximity operations (RPO). Why it's Important: Until now, only militaries could do. RPO can inspect, disable, or destroy other satellites without creating hazardous debris. There are...

Image: Institute of Navigation Congratulations to RNT Foundation International Advisory Council member Logan Scott!  He was honored by the Institute of Navigation last week with its 2022 P. V. H. Weems award "For over 40 years of sustained contributions to GNSS...

Image: Shutterstock & USAF The folks at GPSPatron used artificial intelligence programs to write the below article. It's eerie how well it came out. Perhaps it isn't that policy makers don't understand GNSS issues and needs, but rather they haven't yet asked the...

Image: Galileo Satellite - EUSPA What's New: On Tuesday Europe's Galileo satnav system began a free high accuracy service. Why It Matters:  EU's Galileo and China's Bei Dou (BDS) satnav systems are newer and have more desirable features than America's GPS. GPS could...

Image: Shutterstock What's New: The US has the technology and systems in place to greatly improve GPS accuracy and security It could be done fairly quickly and inexpensively The lack of an empowered federal leader for civil GPS and PNT issues will make it very...

Image: Shutterstock What’s New: A recent GAO report says DOT could improve responses to GPS jamming incidents and increase protection for all forms of transportation. Why it matters: GPS is essential to safe and efficient transportation, especially aviation. A...

Image: Norway Defense Minister visiting with troops - Marita I Wangberg Norway Armed Forces What's New: Norway made its biggest ammunition buy ever ($260M) as part of a defense build up over worries about Russia. Norway has sent $60M worth of ammunition to Ukraine and...

Image: Lauren Layman, ATIS       It’s About Time - For a National Resilient Timing Architecture Presentation by RNTF President Dana A. Goward ATIS “Time and Money,” NY Stock Exchange, 17 January 2023   “It’s about time.” Have you ever noticed that...

Image: Shutterstock What's New - NTIA is asking for comments about how to spend the $1.5B Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation (PWSCI) Fund. Establishing a resilient national timing architecture will provide underlying tech infrastructure needed to support;...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Notes What's New: A recently released DHS document on GPS disruption. It uses the January 2022 Denver event as an example. The report does not say: Why it took 33 hours to find the source of the disruption Why only aviation users were...

Image: Shutterstock Spoofing can be a real problem. We have seen reports of it being used to steal pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and, without a doubt, it is being used in other cargo heists. Mexico has determined that 85% of cargo thefts involved some kind of deliberate...

Image: ESA Blog Editor's Note: It was 2015. Despite fervent pleas from the UK, the rest of Europe and Scandinavia terminated Loran transmissions (the UK has kept its lone eLoran transmitter on air as a timing signal). The conventional wisdom is that keeping Loran...

Hope you can join me at the New York Stock Exchange in a couple weeks! ATIS' "Time and Money" is happening again, and it promises to be more interesting than ever. Not only is yours truly, Dana "I-never-met-a-microphone-I-didn't-like" Goward speaking, but there are a...

Image: GPS.gov & UC Berkely Blog Editor's Note: We were very pleased to see our colleague Terry Moore, also a member of the U.S. President's PNT Advisory Board, honored by King Charles. News release from the University of Nottingham where he is a professor...

Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor's Note: If the International Telecommunications Union, a UN body that can't say anything unless EVERYONE agrees, says something, it must be true! The best way to ensure any nation, especially one as large and diverse as the U.S., has...