The Israeli defense forces want Jam proof GPS
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The Israeli defense forces (IDF) are making ’a wide ranging effort’ to protect GPS systems from Jamming. Some Israeli companies are involved in the efforts.
The problem is considered very serious in many countries that operate systems based on GPS. The Pentagon, for example, hopes that new location technology can ward off jammers and spoofers without ’breaking the bank’.
The Global Positioning System has given the U.S. military an edge on the battlefield for decades. Just about every piece of military electronic equipment – hundreds of millions of aircraft, drones, vehicles, radios, computers and guided bombs – relies on the technology.
According to Defense One, China and other countries are working to develop gear that jams GPS signals, or even spoofs them — allowing, say, bombs to be sent away from their intended targets. And that’s why Pentagon leaders are looking for ways to pinpoint locations anywhere on the globe without GPS.
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Last week at Stanford University, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter last week said the military was hunting for GPS alternatives that are more resilient and less vulnerable. “We’ll do that in part by advancing micro electro mechanical systems technology for small inertial navigation units, small accurate accelerometers, and precision clocks – all on a chip,” he said.
Such technology could allow all military systems to “keep track of their position, orientation, and time from the moment they are created with no need for updates from satellites,” Carter said.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the Pentagon’s research agency, has already been exploring this area. But retrofitting the hundreds of millions of military receivers that use GPS to this new chip technology could be pricy. The Army is already looking to use this technology in some of its new vehicles
New location technologies are the sort of thing that could give the U.S. military an edge on the battlefield of the future. Finding those technologies is a top priority of Carter, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief. But inspiring people to think differently within DoD’s layered bureaucracy is not easy.
