by Editor | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog
Blog Editors’ Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. What Trump Got Wrong About Protecting GPS Users and America By Dana A. Goward, President, Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation MARCH 22, 2021 01:00 PM ET The Global Positioning System has...
by Editor | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog
Image: RNTF Blog Editor’s Note: We are glad to see members of industry advocating for, not just their own solution, but for a variety of diverse solutions. RNTF has long advocated this system-of-systems approach. See and download the graphic we first posted in...
by Editor | Mar 19, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: Ms Diana Furchtgott-Roth served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation. She is an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University, and an RNTF member. We applaud her commentary in the Wall...
by Editor | Mar 17, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock & NASA Every year there is a 4% chance a major solar storm could damage GPS/GNSS satellites or ionize the upper atmosphere preventing signals from getting through for several days or a week. There is also a .7% chance of a Carrington Event that...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2021 | Blog
Image: Jamming gear found at chop shop. Cambridgeshire Constabulary Blog Editor’s Note: We previously reported on the Mexican government’s finding that 85% of truck thefts were aided by GPS jamming devices. While we have not found similar national...
by Editor | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
Deliberate interference with GNSS by the world’s militaries interferes with safe air traffic management, poses risks to aircraft, and imposes extra costs for fuel and transit time, according to a recent EUROCONTROL stakeholder forum. 2,000% increase in GNSS RFI...