Open PNT Industry Alliance Welcomes New Members
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
Open PNT Industry Alliance Endorses U.S. DOT Report on 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
Launch of Open PNT Industry Alliance
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
GPS World Story about DHS Report on Alternative PNT
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.
Former Government Official Supports Findings of DHS Report on 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