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Protect the Frequencies – By preventing interference
Toughen Receivers – With readily available technology
Augment Services – With difficult to disrupt terrestrial signals
What to do? Some recommendations.
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Your Responses to the FCC’s NOI on PNT – Inside GNSS
Image: RNT Foundation Your Responses to the FCC's NOI on PNT A look at the main concerns during the comment period. Dana A. Goward America’s Global Positioning System (GPS) is simultaneously amazing, indispensable, and vulnerable. If its positioning, navigation, and...
Maritime – GNSS outage at Hormuz & Rethinking navigation
Image: NOAA What's new: Another report on jamming and spoofing impacts to maritime, and an article on how maritime must adapt. Why it's important: 95% of the world's trade moves by sea. Disruptions to maritime can have a global impact. Unlike aviation, maritime does...
Opinion: China has an off-switch for America, and we aren’t ready to deal with it. – The Hill
Image: Shutterstock What's new: Increasing concern about the vulnerability of almost all of America's infrastructure - not just GPS. Why it's important: It highlights how fragile systems have become without adequate protections for primary systems or backups if they...
Can China jam your GPS? – The Economist
Image: Shutterstock What's new: An item in The Economist that covers a lot of familiar ground (though good reminders) and also speculates that China or President Trump may threaten or actually deny use of GPS/ other GNSS to other countries as a way to influence their...
Flashback – Senators Cruz, Markey Address GPS Importance & Backup – Inside GNSS
Senator Cruz “...in these divided times it is…nice to see there are areas we can come together and work on with bipartisan cooperation.” Six years ago we celebrated with Senator's Cruz and Markey their sponsorship and passage of a bill requiring the establishment of a...
