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“There are a few reasons for a Longhorn football practice to be moved—a tornado, hail, and fire come to mind—but a science experiment isn’t usually one of them. But it wasn’t just any science experiment that caused UT Athletics officials to relocate the Longhorns’ strength-training practice last week: it was a demo that revealed a […]

“A University of Texas at Austin research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside source—a discovery that could factor heavily into the implementation of a new federal mandate to allow thousands of civilian drones into the U.S.

“The BBC is reporting that researchers from the University of Texas at Austin managed to hack an experimental drone by spoofing GPS signals. Theoretically, this would allow the hackers to direct the drone to coordinates of their choosing. ‘The spoofed drone used an unencrypted GPS signal, which is normally used by civilian planes, says Noel

“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