DOT Advances Study on Protecting GPS Frequency

SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation, through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST–R), will begin testing Global Positioning System/Global Navigation Satellite System (‘‘GPS/GNSS’’) receivers this April pursuant to the DOT...

Best Ad for Jammers Ever

The Metro section of the Washington Post had an article yesterday: “Robbers allegedly tracked gambler with GPS they hid on car.” It gets better. There was another GPS enabled tracker on this guy’s car placed there by an investigator hired by his...

World Dodges GPS Bullet – GPS World

GPS World February 24, 2016 By Alan Cameron It happened in the blink of an eye. Less than a blink. Far less, actually. Slightly more than one one-thousandth of an eye blink, according to calculations. In that amount of time, one of your eyelashes traverses 10...

More Ain’t Necessarily Better!

Guest Post by Professor David Last Satellite navigation may be the most successful innovation of recent decades among science-based industries. As the number of receivers world-wide soars past 2 billion, GPS has been joined by Russia’s GLONASS, China’s Compass-Beidou,...

US Coast Guard Approves Paperless Navigation

USCG Press Release U.S. Coast Guard Approves Official Electronic Charts WASHINGTON – The U.S. Coast Guard published guidance that allows mariners to use electronic charts and publications instead of paper charts, maps and publications. The Coast Guard published...