by Editor | Mar 21, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: An Op-Ed on the FCC’s PNT inquiry and NextNav’s petition from RNT Foundation board member GEN William Shelton, USAF (ret). Why it’s important: A number of bad things would happen if the FCC were to grant...
by Editor | Mar 20, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: An Op-Ed about the Defense Department’s efforts with resilient PNT. Why it’s important: The author makes a number of excellent points about the department’s lack of focus and leadership in PNT. What else to...
by Editor | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for comments about how to align its PNT Profile process with its Cybersecurity efforts. Why it’s important: A least a couple reasons. First, it is good to...
by Editor | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog
Image: RNT Foundation What’s new: While visiting Ragusa, Italy, we discovered a way of marking the hours of the day we had not heard of before – Italic hours which count the number of hours since the last sunset. Why it’s important: Timekeeping has...
by Editor | Mar 17, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: A report that GPS-enabled terrain warning saved the lives of 190 airline passengers on the 2nd of February. Why it’s important: This incident shows how important these safety systems are, and the criticality of them working...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2025 | Blog
Image: Aftermath of collision between Portuguese-flagged container ship Solong and oil tanker Stena Immaculate chartered to U.S. Navy. Source – social media via CNN UPDATE: An AIS reconstruction of the Solong/Stena Immaculate collision seems to show no GPS...
