Malicious interference with the United States Global Positioning System (GPS) is a potentially fatal safety hazard that demands immediate attention and unified action.  As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency […]

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CSIS in its 2025 Space Threat Assessment concludes that space is becoming “a more dangerous place.”

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The company is a contender in the Space Force’s Resilient GPS program, an initiative aimed at augmenting the existing GPS constellation with smaller and lower-cost satellites

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The 1990s were iconic: Super Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat ruled the arcades. Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and “Ironic” by Alanis Morrisette topped the charts. Grunge fashion […]

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The Global Positioning System (GPS) made its combat operations debut during Operation Desert Storm. Since then, it has evolved into a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives that helps keep […]

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The company designed a small navigation satellite for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program

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Satellite operator AST SpaceMobile hopes to turbocharge its proposed direct-to-smartphone services with L-band spectrum from Ligado Networks, which filed for bankruptcy after GPS interference concerns derailed its terrestrial 5G plans.

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This latest award brings Raytheon's total OCX contract value to nearly $4.5 billion since the program's inception in 2010

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HELSINKI — China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to […]

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Forty years ago, the United States government made a decision that transformed the modern world: it opened the Global Positioning System (GPS) to civilian use. What began as a military […]

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Astranis secured an $8 million contract for the initial design phase of the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program

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“There is every reason to believe China’s BeiDou global navigation satellite system has the ability to imitate American GPS signals and those of Europe’s Galileo,” said Professor Todd Humphreys of […]

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Weather forecasters, Federal Emergency Management Agency employees, the National Guard and other U.S military personnel, state and local officials, first responders and those providing emergency services before, during and after […]

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California-based Xona Space Systems is expanding to Canada ahead of deploying the first in a proposed constellation of small navigation satellites in low Earth orbit next year.

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The Space Systems Command awarded contracts to Astranis, Axient, L3Harris and Sierra Space

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The NTS-3 navigation satellite was delivered in early 2023 but Vulcan rocket delays have kept it on the ground

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The annual assessment is part of the GAO's mandate from Congress to evaluate the cost, schedule and performance of GPS acquisition programs.

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The program known as “Resilient GPS” faces congressional skepticism

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oneNav’s Steve Poizner: GPS vulnerabilities could be addressed by accelerating the deployment of its more advanced L5 signal

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Realistically, there is no singular solution to replace GPS, but we can make it more resilient with complementary AltPNT technologies.

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R-GPS is a new procurement of small satellites to augment the existing GPS constellation

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The general population imagines space as something far off and unreachable, when it is omnipresent in their daily lives. This lack of awareness is dangerous for the space sector, particularly public space agencies, that increasingly need to justify their existence and funding in an era of commercial space ventures and climate change restrictions. 

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Jamming and spoofing attacks on GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are becoming increasingly common as geopolitical crises escalate, creating major challenges and risks for aviation, shipping and other critical services across the world. 

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It is time for the United States to coordinate international efforts to halt the marketing and sale of devices that interfere with GNSS systems.

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