by Editor | May 9, 2018 | Blog
The recently released House mark for the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes an additional $5M to add to the $10M appropriated in the 2018 budget, for a GPS backup technology demonstration. The draft bill says: GPS Backup Demonstration The...
by Editor | May 7, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: While it might be exceptionally difficult to hack GPS by invading its operating system (probably not Windows 95 as suggested in the second article below), it is incredibly easy to hack GPS civilian signals by spoofing, and to launch a...
by Editor | May 4, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: Jamming satnav services, like GPS, is illegal in many countries. Yet few nations have active programs to detect and arrest those violating such laws. In the United States, for example, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has the...
by Editor | May 2, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: This, of course, could be said of any unmanned system, and to a lesser extent for all transportation, manned and unmanned. The US government is doing a technology demonstration of a complementary and backup system for GPS this year. Once...
by Editor | May 1, 2018 | Blog
Technologists from the National Institutes of Standards (NIST) report that all the operators of electrical grids they have contacted have reported some problems using GNSS timing. About 20% report that this has caused problems with operations, mostly offline analysis...
by Editor | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog
Over the last 12 months Russia has been increasingly active disrupting GPS signals and undermining confidence in “America’s gift to the world.” These activities seem to be serving several Russian national objectives: Frustrate western military and...
