The Open PNT Industry Alliance (OPIA) recently accepted the following companies as its newest members: istlink Tallysman OPIA is a coalition of manufacturers and service providers that have dedicated themselves to helping their customers back up GPS/GNSS by delivering alternative forms of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The companies in the alliance represent multiple PNT
Geospatial World published a 20-Mar-2021 story about the recent launch of the Open PNT Industry Alliance. The piece emphasizes the need for alternative forms of PNT and describes the principles of the coalition, including the promotion of diverse technologies in a market that is open to competition.
The Open PNT Industry Alliance (OPIA) recently accepted the following companies as its newest members: Focus Telecom Ltd. Oscilloquartz (an ADVA company) ProTrack Ltd. OPIA is a coalition of manufacturers and service providers that have dedicated themselves to helping their customers back up GPS/GNSS by delivering alternative forms of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The
The Open PNT Industry Alliance (OPIA) recently accepted the following companies as its newest members: OshoCorp Global Pvt. Ltd. TrustPoint, Inc. Xona Space Systems, Inc. OPIA is a coalition of manufacturers and service providers that have dedicated themselves to helping their customers back up GPS/GNSS by delivering alternative forms of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT).
Today the Open PNT Industry Alliance issued an endorsement of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Complementary Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and GPS Backup Technologies Demonstration Report. The following key passage from the Conclusions and Recommendations section of DOT's report (p. 194) is quoted in the statement to underscore how the U.S. Government's own findings
Today, ten PNT service providers and equipment manufacturers aligned their common interests to form the Open PNT Industry Alliance. The mission of the Open PNT Industry Alliance is to promote open-market concepts that preserve industry’s long-term ability to harness its inventive talent to protect GPS/GNSS with multiple solutions that are technologically advanced, commercially viable, and
An article from GPS World entitled “Homeland Security reports on PNT backup, Satelles responds” provides an outstanding synopsis of the DHS report about backing up GPS with alternative forms of PNT.
Dr. Reginald Brothers, the former Undersecretary of Science and Technology for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, published an op-ed entitled “Fixing a critical vulnerability in our critical infrastructure.” In this piece, Dr. Brothers elaborates on many of the principal findings of the Report on Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Backup and Complementary Capabilities to the
