by Editor | May 22, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note: There are all kinds of reasons why people buy and use illegal GNSS jammers. Sometimes they are even inadvertently advertised by the media. Last year we posted a newspaper story about criminals who had used a GPS enabled tracking device to follow a...
by Editor | May 21, 2017 | Blog
On Friday a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives that contained language requiring the Secretary of Transportation to work through the Coast Guard to establish an eLoran system. This follows recent discussion of the topic in two Senate hearings, a...
by Editor | May 20, 2017 | Blog
Yesterday Congressman Duncan Hunter introduced HR 2518, the House version of the US Coast Guard Authorization Act for 2018 and 2019. Chapter 807 begins: “80701. Land-based complementary and backup positioning, navigation, and timing system. “(a) eLORAN.—Subject to the...
by Editor | May 15, 2017 | Blog
Editor’s Note – The authors make excellent points about the dominant importance of the “T” (time) in PNT (positioning, navigation and timing). Their suggestion for the military to dis-aggregate it and focus on time alone is an interesting idea...
by Editor | May 14, 2017 | Blog
This week the US Director of National Intelligence informed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are expected to continue their efforts to disrupt GPS signals along with other space assets. His unclassified report...
by Editor | May 12, 2017 | Blog
Things seem to come in batches. Two reports by DHS of interest to our readers popped up on the radar the other day. The first is one on mobile device security. Congress required the report as a part of 2015 appropriations and it was just submitted last month (April)....
