Regulators, Traders are Out of Sync

Wall Street Journal 14 July 2014 by Bradley Hope Clock Synchronization With Traders Is Challenge for Regulators As trading hits warp speed, market cops have a growing headache: Clocks can’t always keep up. Most brokers and trading firms now use high-speed...

DARPA looking for less-vulnerable alternatives to GPS

Intelligence Community News, 14 July 2014 – The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become the predominant way to obtain positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in military and civilian systems, but because GPS is vulnerable to interference due to its low...

Delivering a National Timescale Using eLoran

This paper explores the ability of eLoran to disseminate UTC-traceable time to applications in GNSS-denied environments. It proposes the creation of a National Timescale with UTC distributed via eLoran signals. Practical results from a test programme are very...

GPS Jammers a Top Concern in Maritime Cyber Readiness

“Maritime Professional” Jun 3, 2014 by Capt. David B. Moskoff Not much more than a decade ago, the words “maritime security” represented a new concept, especially for the commercial industry. Since then, the maritime community has responded with terrorism...

Future of Air Navigation: Resistance to Vulnerability

Aviation International News, May 2, 2014 By John Sheridan Resilience–broadly, the ability to readily recover from external disturbances–seems likely to become the next buzzword in aviation’s lexicon. It is gaining acceptance primarily to describe a future world air...