Better Protection of Spectrum is a Defense Necessity

Graphic from AFCEA Editor’s Note: The author of this article starts with “Safeguarding the electromagnetic spectrum is critical to success throughout the battlespace, but the ethos and resources needed to secure and defend this vital medium are...

Jamming Biggest GPS Danger to U.S.

The cumulative effects of daily low power jamming by thousands of criminals and privacy seekers, and the threat of high power jamming by terrorist and other nations, pose the greatest GPS-related dangers to the United States, according to an RNT Foundation white paper...

Telecom Industry Comes Down Hard for Better PNT

In a presentation to the National PNT Advisory Board last week, ATIS, the telecommunications industry standards body, strongly urged: Great care licensing transmissions in bands adjacent to GPS Establishment of an Alternate PNT System to GPS, and describing the...

Europe Finding Jammers Everywhere – U.S. Not Even Looking

In a dramatic presentation at the National PNT Advisory Board this week, Mr. Mark Dumville  of Nottingham Scientific, Ltd. discussed the European GNSS Agency’s STRIKE3 project to detect and classify GNSS interference. The project has a  data base of over 58,000...