Jamming and Spoofing GPS - An Important EW Element of Great Power Competition

Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) is an essential utility to military forces and civil systems and applications. It underlies the operation of IT and communications, systems, populated data fields making modern life possible.

America’s primary source of PNT is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Its fragile, easily denied and imitated signals are being disrupted around the world every day. Disruption is a major feature of conflicts in Ukraine and the middle east and is regularly observed in the Baltic and southeast Asia.

What began as America’s gift to the world has become a military and civil vulnerability, and in some regions a liability.

The webinar will discuss the mechanics of jamming (denial) and spoofing (imitation and manipulation) of GPS signals. And how GPS PNT evolved from a weapons system, to an essential utility that enabled untold trillions in economic benefit, to a point of internation contention and conflict.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Mr. Dana A. Goward is President of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, a public benefit scientific and educational charity dedicated to protecting GPS/GNSS satellites, signals and users.

He is a lifelong practical navigator, orienteering as scout, serving as a navigator at sea, and using every means available in the air as a career Coast Guard helicopter pilot.

He retired in 2013 from the federal Senior Executive Service after serving as the maritime navigation authority for the United States. He is a member of the President�s National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board.