July 2025: The RNL’s Dr. Humphreys was awarded the Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of Navigation. Congratulations to Dr. Humphreys for this great achievement!
June 2025: Society’s dependence on GNSS is widespread, and users of different services reliant on GNSS “are not all acutely aware of the risks associated with their dependency on it and the ways that the system can be disrupted or degraded,” according to Caitlin Durkovich, a former national security official and critical infrastructure expert. The
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May 2025: Congratulations to Sam Morgan for receiving IEEE/ION PLANS 2025 Best Student Paper Award. For more, see here.
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April 2025: Vanity Fair reports that a DHL pallet in Birmingham, England, last July caught fire, with a similar events occurring in Leipzig, Germany and near Warsaw, Poland. The incendiary devices were suspected to be part of an “ongoing campaign to sow chaos across Western Europe” by Russia’s military intelligence agency. The ongoing campaign includes
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April 2025: The RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys gives a talk on Direct-to-Cellular (D2C) networks during the 2025 6G@UT Forum at The University of Texas at Austin.
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March 2025: During Match, the RNL’s Dr. Humphreys attended the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, where he gave a talk on using Starlink for PNT purposes. You can find the video of the talk here and and navigating to Session 10 around 45 minutes in.
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February 2025: IEEE Spectrum spoke with the RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys about spoofing and its effect on civilian aircraft. When asked about examples of GPS spoofing, Dr. Humphreys responded that “in 2017, we began to see spoofing attacks happening in the Black Sea” and that since spoofing has become “more sophisticated and more widespread.” He
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January 2025: Zach Clements is currently a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Radionavigation Laboratory. His research interests include statistical signal processing, optimal estimation, and software-defined radio, with an emphasis on GNSS interference detection, classification, and localization from Low Earth Orbit. Before his graduate
RNL’s Zach Clements Wins U.S. D.O.T CARMEN+ UTC Student of The Year Award Read More »
UCCS Invitational Workshop on Space Cybersecurity and Resilience from Dec. 12, 2024.
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November 2024: Some newer companies are exploring direct space-to-phone communication. These include SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile. “Sat phones have long been the gold standard for those needing connectivity in remote conditions. They are expensive to use, with rates normally running to dollars per minute. But they provide coverage in the middle of the ocean, up
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