Professor Brad Parkinson, the chief architect of GPS, will today tell a conference at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory in Teddington that the satellite based navigation now ubiquitous in industries as varied as aviation and maritime navigation, banking, and mobile phone operations needs to be made more resilient.
His call follows news from the SENTINEL project, funded by The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, of the first recorded seizures of second generation signal jammers from crime scenes in the UK that are considerably more powerful than any previously recorded, with ranges extending several miles.
The devices are capable of disrupting not only the GPS service, but also various other positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signal frequencies simultaneously, including all those provided by Europe's GPS alternative Galileo.
Professor Charles Curry...