by Editor | Mar 18, 2015 | Blog
Great progress by DHS in helping to protect critical infrastructure was reported this week by “Inside GNSS.” Led by DHS Science and Technology Program Manager Sarah Mahmood, DHS and NIST have developed and published a ten page guide of “Best Practices for Improved...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog
We have always been a fan of the interesting, methodical and technically astute ways Dr. Sally Basker (PhD, BEng, FRIN) has of looking at and explaining things. In one of her recent efforts she outlined 21 different types of GNSS disruptions. Not only is this an...
by Editor | Mar 10, 2015 | Blog
Mark Thompson, Time Magazine, March 8, 2015 If a foe disables or destroys GPS, Pentagon still needs to drop bombs accurately The success of precision-guided bombs in 1991’s Gulf War was a revelation. The world watched transfixed as U.S. generals briefed before screens...
by Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | Blog
This month “Coordinates” magazine published an RNT Foundation paper presented at the 2014 European Navigation Conference in Rotterdam. The paper discusses ways that nations and companies must think about and care for the PNT systems that are so important to their...
by Editor | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog
Almost half of the sessions at the International Navigation Conference (INC) 2015 held this week (February 24–26) in Manchester, England, were devoted to the theme of resilience and vulnerability, a topic that Dana Goward of the Resilient Navigation and Timing...
by Editor | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog
The Strategic Technology Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has six focus areas it is currently working on – one of which is Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Describing the PNT problem on their website, DARPA says: The U.S....
