US DOT GPS Backup Tech Demo – Request for Technologies

US DOT GPS Backup Tech Demo – Request for Technologies

Today the US Department of Transportation will publish a Request for Information seeking vendors interested in participating in a demonstration of technologies: “… that are capable of providing backup positioning, navigation, and/or timing services to...
Highway gantries identify jammers – GPS World

Highway gantries identify jammers – GPS World

Blog Editor’s Note: We have to say that our friends at GPS World “got us” with the title of the article. “Finally,” we thought, “some government or commercial entity is taking a serious approach to this problem and is systematically...
Russian Spoofing – Voice of America, Ukraine, Report

Russian Spoofing – Voice of America, Ukraine, Report

RNTF President Dana A. Goward and C4ADS Chief of Analysis Thomas Ewing appeared on VoA television in Ukraine last week discussing Russian spoofing in the area. The video is in Ukrainian, but English speakers can still get a pretty good idea of what is going on.  The...
Assured Accurate Time – Presentations from NIST Workshop

Assured Accurate Time – Presentations from NIST Workshop

“Access to Assured and Accurate Time II” was the title of a workshop held by NIST on the 25th of March. The event was the day before the annual ATIS Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS) in San Jose. If, like us, you weren’t able to...
Detecting GPS Interference from Space – Naval Research Lab

Detecting GPS Interference from Space – Naval Research Lab

The recent C4ADS report on GPS spoofing in Russia and the Middle East provided a number of interesting and new revelations. One of which was that GPS interference can be detected from space. Working with a sensor aboard the International Space Station, a team lead by...