by Editor | Mar 8, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is wading into the national discussion on PNT technology and policy in a big way. Why it’s important: The FCC has an important role ensuring PNT frequencies are allotted and...
by Editor | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: Saturday morning several aircraft approaching Regan National Airport in D.C. received false alerts from their Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS). The system warns when other aircraft are too close or are on...
by Editor | Mar 4, 2025 | Blog
Image: Old DHS HQ Sign – RNT Foundation What’s new: We discovered this document from September. Why it’s important: This is good info from DHS. Though a bit generic, it is important to “think about how to think about” this topic. What...
by Editor | Mar 2, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: NextNav has come out with another document purporting to support that its terrestrial PNT scheme could work and that the FCC should give it lots of expensive spectrum for free to underwrite the effort. Why it’s important:...
by Editor | Mar 1, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: Growing awareness of the importance of cyber, including GPS in agriculture. Why it’s important: Precision agriculture is more environmentally friendly and yields more food per acre with much less fertilizer and pesticide....
by Editor | Feb 28, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: We discovered this interesting fact sheet Space Force issued. Why it’s important: When GPS was first launched space was a fairly safe place to put things. Now it is pretty dangerous. Not only is it a warfighting domain, it...
