by Editor | Feb 19, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: This paper is another reminder that PNT is infrastructure for a host of technologies, including telecommunications. The better, more resilient the PNT, the better, more resilient our telecoms. This has been a theme at the...
by Editor | Feb 18, 2021 | Blog
Image Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: With a passenger aircraft almost crashing into a mountain, drones big enough to kill someone crashing in back yards, and aircraft enroute nearly departing controlled flight, it is no wonder ICAO told its members addressing...
by Editor | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: We heard this piece from Colorado Public Radio on NPR today. The title was hopeful, but as you will see reading the transcript or listening to the four minute piece here, a lot of the information has a kernel of truth, but is presented in a...
by Editor | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog
Our friends in the UK have a series of interesting seminars coming up soon! 18 Feb 21 – Why PNT systems are vulnerable, recent disruption examples and impacts 25 Feb 21 – System requirements, systems-of-systems 11 Mar 21 – Risk assessment &...
by Editor | Feb 12, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note – There are lots of reasons to worry about GPS vulnerability and our over-reliance on it. Disruptions can lead to accidents (like the near crash of a passenger plane in 2019), a halt to farming operations and digital...
by Editor | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: In the1990’s after the advent of GPS, the FAA planned to decommission its ground-based navigation aids and have aircraft rely entirely on space-based systems, essentially GPS and its augments. In 2001 a Volpe Transportation Systems...
