Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a surprise appearance at the DOT roundtable on complementary PNT. (Screenshot: DOT) “If this is a problem, the government should act like it.” Citing more than 10 years of government studies, warnings and promises, representatives…
Dana Goward, President, Resilient PNT Foundation The appropriation for fiscal year 2022 enacted this month included $ 15M for “Position navigation and timing [PNT] technologies and global positioning system [GPS] backup” in the Department of Transportation (DOT) budget. At first…
Study’s emphasis, timing of release, work against that, some say Image: Panuwat Sikham/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images The stated goal of a recently published RAND study was to answer a question from Congress about what should be done to back up…
Top-level current, former PNT leaders to discuss findings A “Who’s Who” of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) leaders will gather virtually at 11 a.m. PDT/2 p.m. EDT on May 5 to discuss findings of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT)…
In separate letters to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and new Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg, influential members of Congress have urged the Biden administration to take prompt action and establish a backup timing capability for GPS. Danger and…
Ford has applied for a patent that would send a drone to dock with an autonomous vehicle and act as a surrogate sensor if one of the car’s sensors failed. The UAV then uses its own sensors to guide the car…
