Broadband Live
Broadband Breakfast on May 28, 2025 – Understanding Global Positioning
What challenges and opportunities do alternatives to GPS present? What might a more diversified PNT landscape look like in practice?
Expert Opinion
PNT Resilience, Not Rhetoric: A National Security Vulnerability We Can Fix Together
NextNav already holds extensive spectrum licenses in the Lower 900 MHz band.
Homeland Security Department
Meeting A National Security Challenge: The Race To GPS Resiliency
The lack of a backup to GPS is one of the U.S.’s biggest national security risks.
FCC
Carr Calls For Backup Alternatives to GPS
Agency looking for ways to reduce risks to national security
PNT
Positioning Navigation and Timing Executives Want More Resiliency for GPS
Telecommunications industry may be vulnerable in the event of PNT sabotage.
Public Safety
FCC’s Simington Raises GPS Security Concerns
Simington urged the FCC to address security risks tied to foreign GPS alternatives.
Expert Opinion
GPS Does Need a Backup, Terrestrial Is the Answer – But Which Terrestrial?
A key effort to protecting America, and GPS by making it a much less attractive target, is to establish a terrestrial backup system.
Expert Opinion
GPS Needs a Backup, Terrestrial PNT Is the Answer
The FCC issued a public notice to seek comment on rearranging the spectrum in the Lower 900 MegaHertz band.
