Few outside the position, navigation, and timing (PNT) community will also recall that the day before the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government released a landmark document that described the vulnerabilities of services provided by GPS to disruption, whether by attack or inadvertent interference. The...More>>

Defense editor Don Jewell is a retired Air Force officer who served for 30 years; many of his former peers and contemporaries are currently senior officers in today’s U.S. Air Force. Don sat down recently with General C. Robert Kehler, Commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, whom he has...More>>

Mobile Mark (Schiller Park, Illinois) is marketing a license plate antenna as convenient solution for wireless users looking to camouflage their use of a wireless radio or GPS tracking system. The antenna also works well for wireless users looking to combine or consolidate multiple antennas, the...More>>

A packed audience attended the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom for a February 23 meeting titled, “GPS Jamming and Interference: A Clear and Present Danger,” organized by the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network. In his keynote address, David Last described a dark,...More>>

A story in the Financial Times of the UK reports that critical infrastructure, including air traffic communications, electricity transmission, telecoms networks and emergency services are all under threat from the increasing availability of GPS jammers.More>>

BrickHouse Security is offering free GPS tracking devices to non-profit institutions seeking to protect their nativity scenes, menorahs, and other seasonal displays. More>>

Antenova Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) has added GPS Radionova RF antenna modules based on the MStar MSB2122 low power single-chip GPS receiver integrated circuit to its product line. The module has been successfully integrated into a thin credit-card-sized personal tracker reference design suited for...More>>

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) of the United Kingdom has delivered 18 SGR-10 GPS receivers to Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of the United States to provide on-board orbit determination for the ORBCOMM Generation 2 (OG2) satellites.More>>

The most widely used of all GPS devices are in-car navigators. When vehicles carrying navigators are used for criminal purposes, records contained in the devices may be examined. Such investigations rely on newly developed forensic techniques that employ a combination of computer expertise and...More>>

Chronos Technology is introducing the academic and business research consortium working on the GAARDIAN Project at its booth (#728) at the ION GNSS conference taking place this week in Savannah, Georgia. Chronos is leading the consortium, which over the course of 2009 – 2011 will be researching...More>>