- French technology and the United Kingdom experts will collaborate in multiple projects
- One of them is to ensure the technology used in GPS systems
- The GPS must be more resistant to blocking and the jam
British and French technology experts will soon work together more closely to make head doctors and other similar technologies more resistant to interruptions.
The news was announced by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom (DSIT), which said that experts in the two countries will work together on several different projects in the future.
This includes the strengthening of the resilience of the critical infrastructure to the signaling of signal observed in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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“From our electricity infrastructure, to transport, to financial transactions, the technology in which we depend for everyday life depends on a reliable positioning, navigation and time (PNT), often provided through satellites,” reads the announcement.
“The conflict in Ukraine has shown how new technologies, in some cases, only small hand devices, can be used to interrupt PNT services, which can cause an important interruption in the vast areas of life and the economy that depend on them.”
One of these complementary technologies, highly resistant to interference, is E-Lore, a system that uses terrestrial radio towers as a “backup” for GPS. Dsit describes him as “much more challenging” to block and, as such, he can maintain the critical infrastructure technology of the United Kingdom that is executed “even when the GPS fails.”
The war in Ukraine seems to have exposed significant weaknesses of current GPS systems, which could end in tragedy.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, Telegraph researchers examined flight radar data during the first four months of 2024, which included 63 military planes of the United Kingdom that completed 1,467 flights on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
“During this time, the military aviation of the United Kingdom flew 504 transport and recognition missions on Eastern Europe, with 142 of them finding the GPS interference, and in 60 cases, such efforts occurred several times,” the publication explained.
At the same time, Business Insider reported that Finnish soldiers were training with “basic navigation tools”: paper maps and compasses, due to the lack of reliability of GPS systems.
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