by Editor | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note: Kudos to Matt Leonard for beginning this article by identifying purposeful GPS disruption as a cyber-attack. Despite the disruption of communication pathways, impact on end-use devices, and the potential for inserting false information into data...
by Editor | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note: The Black Sea incident in June is almost inexplicable. The theory put forth below is plausible as to the mechanics of what happened, but one wonders why the Russian military would reveal its capability is such a haphazard manner. As a warning of...
by Editor | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog
The European Commission has reported detecting over 140,000 unique electronic signatures of GPS/GNSS jammers during the limited sampling it has done on the continent. While there are undoubtedly an equal or larger number of jammers operating in the United States,...
by Editor | Aug 10, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note: Good article from “The Diplomat.” About two-thirds the way through the reporter makes the point that the issue more important than navigation for navies (and everyone else) is the reliance on GPS for network timing. He clearly did his...
by Editor | Aug 9, 2017 | Blog
Anecdotal reports about problems with GPS reception in Russian waters have been circulating for years. In June a well documented report showed a disruption in the Black Sea lasting on and off for days and impacting at least 20 vessels. We expect that mariners would...
by Editor | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note: A couple things of note about this very short item posted last week. First, it is published by “GPS World.” It shows wide recognition in the satnav community that space-based sources for positioning, navigation and timing should be...
