Critical Infrastructure Needs to Be Ready for GNSS Loss, UK Reports

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals and the satellites themselves are vulnerable to "steadily evolving" threats of accidental and deliberate interference and cyberattack, the U.K. Government Office of Science reported Tuesday. Noting heavy and growing reliance on GNSS, it said the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Ofcom should keep addressing interference risks to GNSS-dependent users when allocating spectrum to new services and applications. It said critical national infrastructure operators should make provisions for the loss of GNSS by using GNSS-independent back-up systems.