GPS Spoofing

Elias Groll reports on a study of Russian spoofing of GPS systems with mobile transponders when President Putin travels to foreign nations. It is assumed this is done to reduce the possibility of drone attacks on the Russian President.

-DD

U.S. Loses GPS Monopoly

Danny Crichton & Arman Tabatabai muse on the commercial implications of the development of competition in global positioning services . Japan is developing a highly accurate satellite system. Shiugenori Arai notes "the [Japanese] satellites can narrow margins of error to 10 cm or less, improving significantly on the American [GPS] system's roughly 10-meter window. China is mandating its phones use its Beidou constellation of satellites, and this may result in fragmentation of the cellphone market.

-DD