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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 […]

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

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

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

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

May 2025: Congratulations to Sam Morgan for receiving IEEE/ION PLANS 2025 Best Student Paper Award. For more, see here.

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

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.

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.