Positioning, Navigation and Timing is an invisible utility. Its loss could rapidly cascade across the UK economy, critical national infrastructure and individual businesses. RethinkPNT has published a new open-access paper, Strategic and Enterprise Risks from Loss of Position, Navigation and Timing Services, setting out the strategic implications of degraded, denied or deceptive satellite-derived PNT. PNT…

RethinkPNT has published an essay discussing PNT System Resilience and how it can be combined with situational awareness approaches, to achieve PNT Situational Awareness (PNT-SA).

RethinkPNT has made available a paper describing an approach to PNT System Resilience. it is based upon work in the software domain by Donald Firesmith and adapted to a PNT system, including system-of-system, context. This paper proposes that PNT system resilience is an essential attribute of systems that utilise PNT information for any operation, especially…

RethinkPNT is a member of the IEEE P1952 committee which is looking to define a standard for Resilient PNT User Equipment, encompassing threats and hazards, user equipment models and behaviours and addressing how to categorise equipment to assist people to understand the capability of what they purchase for PNT equipment. Click Here to Download

Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) data is integral to the safety, security, and prosperity of nations. However, in most cases the role of PNT services at the Enterprise or even Government/National is not clearly understood, and the degree to which a nation is dependent on PNT services often remains undefined. This paper presents a framework…