January 2026: Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are finding new ways to relieve the sprawling, congested infrastructure surrounding the Forty Acres home to UT. Waymo and Robotaxi services, as well as CapMetro’s nascent self-driving transit buses, are some of the methods being deployed to encourage ridesharing and public transport. The RNL has […]
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November 2025: Since mid-November, electromagnetic interference has descended on the Caribbean. Amid a U.S. military buildup in the area—including attacks on alleged drug-running boats—the U.S. FAA has issued a critical warning to commercial pilots. Many commercial aviation navigation systems still rely on the traditional L1 GPS signal now threatened by increased interference. “Aviation receivers are
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November 2025: RNL alumnus Dr. Andrew Graff is now married. Congratulations Andrew!
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November 2025: Congratulations to Alperen Duru for receiving the Best Poster award at the Brooklyn 6G Summit! 6G will have AI applications and optimization as a core component. However, these implementations require dataset collection from the environment, which may be site-specific. Digital twins can help generate synthetic datasets for such AI implementations for deployment in
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November 2025: The RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys moderated a panel at the Brooklyn 6G Summit hosted by New York University. Panelists include Marco Keskinen (Skylo Technologies), Dr. Dongning Guo (Northwestern University), Brian Olsen (T-Mobile), and Jason Aspiotis (Axiom Space Inc.). The panel begins at 5:47:45.
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The RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys gave a virtual talk on GNSS Spoofing to the Royal Aeronautical Society in Toulouse on Oct. 1, 2025, detailing the progression and discovery of various spoofing techniques and countermeasures.
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October 2025: A strong, repetitive radio signal has been interfering with GNSS signals across Europe as far back as 2019. The BBC’s Science in Action was interested in learning more. “This is the main finding of my student Zach Clements’s work,” the RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys responded, “where he’s determined with a high degree of
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September 2025: GNSS spoofing has been growing more prevalent in European airspace. A report for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) prepared by representatives of Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, shows that almost 123,000 flights have been affected by radio interference. Much of this interference is concentrated in Russian airspace and has been
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September 2025: In late August, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had her plane knocked off course due to GNSS interference. Since the escalation of the Russian-Ukranian conflict in 2022, radio interference has begun to affect much of continental Europe. The RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys said, “if the pilots [on von
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August 2025: With rising concerns on the vulnerability of GNSS, the FCC seeks to explore solutions to improve the robustness of PNT services. SpaceX argues that the Starlink system may support the FCC’s interest in a ‘layered’ approach to national PNT resilience by providing secure, reliable, and global coverage. “It looks like SpaceX has come
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