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“Satelite navigation systems are at risk from criminals, terrorists or even just bored teenagers, with the potential to cause major incidents from maritime disasters to chaos in financial markets, leading experts warned on Wednesday. From maps on car dashboards and mobile phones, to road tolls, aviation and marine navigation systems and even financial exchanges, much […]

Austin, TX — Kyle Wesson, Daniel Shepard, and Todd Humphreys authored the cover story of GPS World on anti-spoofing techniques for civil GPS in the January 2012 edition. The introduction reads, “Disruption created by intentional generation of fake GPS signals could have serious economic consequences. This article discusses how typical civil GPS receivers respond to

“Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn’t implausible. Although it’s way harder to do than the Iranian boast suggests, it points to yet another flaw with America’s fleet of robot warplanes.” Continue reading the WIRED article,

Austin, TX — The Radionavigation Laboratory congratulates Zaher (Zak) Kassas for being elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2011. To be eligible for IEEE Senior Member status, an IEEE Member must: have experience reflecting professional maturity; have been in professional practice for at least ten years; and show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in

Austin, TX — The Radionavigation Laboratory congratulates Ken Pesyna for being selected to receive the Innovative Signals Analysis Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year. The fellowship comes with a $4,000 stipend. In addition to being a member of the Radionavigation Laboratory, Ken is a member of the Wireless Systems Innovation Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Robert Heath.

Boston, MA — MIT Professor Dr. Kerri Cahoy, an expert in radio occultation, invited Dr. Todd Humphreys to present on development of the FOTON GPS radio occultation receiver. The presentation was an Invited Enrichment Lecture for her graduate-level Satellite Engineering class and other students and faculty of the MIT AeroAstro department. Coincident with Dr. Humphreys’s visit, students Ingrid

Portland, OR — Dr. Todd Humphreys chaired an ION GNSS 2011 panel session on “Improving Security of GNSS Receivers.” Dr. Humphreys began the panel with introductory remarks [pptx] noting the increasing trend of spoofing research over the past few years and also presented on practical cryptographic civil GPS signal authentication [pptx]. The panel consisted of five members from industry and academia: Logan

Austin, TX — Outside of the four papers contributed solely by RNL to ION GNSS, RNL members were co-authors on four other papers: Ryan Mitch’s paper on Signal Characteristics of Civil GPS Jammers (Cornell) Brady O’Hanlon’s paper on CASES: A Smart, Compact GPS Software Receiver for Space Weather Monitoring (Cornell) Mark Psiaki’s paper on Civilian GPS Spoofing Detection based on

Portland, OR — Six members of RNL attended ION GNSS 2011 in Portland, Oregon to present research. Four papers were presented: Characterization of Receiver Response to a Spoofing Attack A Proposed Navigation Message Authentication Implementation for Civil GPS Anti-Spoofing Tightly-Coupled Opportunistic Navigation for Deep Urban and Indoor Positioning An Evaluation of the Vestigial Signal Defense for Civil

Whether it’s investigating ways to preserve the security of GPS signals or developing new types of receivers, the field of radionavigation is ripe with possibility—and Dr. Todd Humphreys does not hesitate for a moment in defining how his research team fits into the mix. “What’s the next big thing in GPS?” he asks. “That’s what