“Do We Want Faster Horses?”

Henry Ford is reputed to have once remarked “If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said ‘faster horses.’” The federal government might be facing a similar challenge with the Federal Register Notice it published this week about Complementary...

US Losing Internet Lead?

“Internet Development Hampered By Lack of Effective Time Signal” -NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publicized a report yesterday that outlined how further development of the internet, specifically the “Internet of Things,” will be...

GPS Disruption Halts Ports, Endangers Ships – US Coast Guard

Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection   At a public meeting last month, US Coast Guard officials described how interference with GPS signals disrupted operations for seven hours at a major east coast port last year. You can watch the entire meeting below, the...

GPS is an Attractive Nuisance

One of the many interesting exchanges at the US National Position, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board in December was Professor Per Enge’s response to a question about how having a high power, difficult-to-disrupt, terrestrial eLoran system that provided GPS-like...