by Editor | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything.”* So far, it has been the same with GPS/GNSS/PNT vunlerability and the need for a complementary and back up system. Late last month “GPS World” published an item about...
by Editor | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog
Concerned about the vulnerability of GPS to disruption from a myriad of sources, the US Naval Academy, US Coast Guard Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy and others have reinstated instruction in celestial navigation. This requires measuring the height of the sun,...
by Editor | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog
I had a flight the next morning. Rather than wait and return with the group I walked to a dark lonely city street corner and fired up the Uber app on my phone. The car was only two minutes away. Sweet. The app’s map display showed the progress of the car as it...
by Editor | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog
Editor’s Note: Some folks in the FAA will dismiss the role of GPS in aviation and claim that commercial aircraft don’ have the same dependencies as other modes of transportation. As with many claims of government officials who don’t have the...
by Editor | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog
In a letter to each of the members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation the Council of American Masters Mariners urged appointment of a single agency to be responsible for implementing an eLoran system and measures that would empower that...
by Editor | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
On the 26th of October NIST and IEEE hosted a workshop on “Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid” at the sprawling and attractive NIST campus in Gaithersburg, MD. Here are some quotes and observations from the morning and early afternoon sessions, and from a couple of...
