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“American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system – acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A University of Texas at Austin team used “spoofing” – a technique where the drone mistakes the signal from hackers for the one sent from GPS […]

“Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin Radionavigation Laboratory have successfully demonstrated that a drone with an unencrypted GPS system can be taken over by a person wielding a GPS spoofing device. You can see a video accompanying a Fox News story on it, as well as a video here of an experiment conducted

“A small surveillance drone flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. By all appearances, the mission is routine. Suddenly, the drone veers dramatically off course, careering eastward from its intended flight path. A few moments later, it is clear something is seriously

Myrtle Beach, SC—Two RNL members won conference-level best paper awards at the 2012 IEEE/ION PLANS conference. Congratulations to Jahshan and Ken! Jahshan Bhatti won the Walter Fried award from the IEEE for the overall best technical paper at the IEEE/ION PLANS conference for his work on Development and Demonstration of a TDOA-Based GNSS Interference Signal Localization System. Ken Pesyna won

“New York—I always knew I could lose my shirt on Wall Street, but I never thought I’d have to worry about my watch. Not the Rolex, but the actual seconds marking the passage of time. It turns out the sands of the hourglass that tell us when things such as stocks and bonds get traded

“As our dependence on navigation satellites for accurate positioning and timing becomes ever greater, so do the natural and man-made threats that could compromise their usefulness.” Continue reading the GEO Connexion International artice: page one and two.

“In his small workshop cluttered with machines of all kinds, Todd Humphreys, director of the Radionavigation at the University of Texas at Austin, shows a video his students made of a recent test. It shows a smartphone, held at arm’s length, showing Google Maps on the screen: “The device locates its position with GPS and indicates its

“Two years ago, a new global positioning system-based system guiding jets to runways at Newark Liberty International Airport began switching off without warning. The culprits, according to government documents, were drivers on the adjacent New Jersey Turnpike who were using cheap, illegal GPS jamming devices to prevent their employers from locating them. The devices, whose

Austin, TX — Daniel Shepard and Sydney Norrell offered visitors to the UT campus a chance to get hands on with high-tech GPS receiver processing during Explore UT, the biggest open house in Texas. The RNL exhibit featured a chance to draw 3D shapes and figures with a GPS antenna that were then displayed on

Austin, TX — What’s the predictable endpoint of the trend toward ever cheaper, ever smaller, and ever more sensitive GPS?  It’s the GPS dot: a GPS tracking device first featured in the movie “The Da Vinci code” and now moving inexorably from fiction to non-fiction.  The GPS dot will fundamentally re-order our lives.  We’ll buy dots