Institute of Navigation awarded Dr. Jason Anderson its Bradford W. Parkinson Award on September 12, 2025, during the ION GNSS+ 2025 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, for his thesis: Designing Cryptography Systems for GNSS Data and Ranging Authentication.
Jason Anderson received his PhD from Stanford University where his research in the Stanford GPS Lab pertained to constructing …

Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division awarded Logan Scott its Johannes Kepler Award on September 12, 2025, during the ION GNSS+ 2025 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, for sustained contributions to satellite navigation signal design, recognition and mitigation of interference and spoofing threats to GPS, and advocacy for civil GNSS assurance.
Logan Scott’s seminal contributions to satellite …

The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed plans to launch the first two satellites in its low-Earth orbit (LEO) positioning navigation and timing (PNT) constellation in the second half of December 2025. The launch will use a Rocket Lab Electron Vehicle, marking Europe’s first venture into LEO-based satellite navigation.

The LEO-PNT in-orbit demonstrator mission, called Celeste, aims to …

The E-GIANTS (European GNSS Improved Authentication Solutions) project was commissioned by the European Commission and technically supervised by EUSPA. The project responds to the growing threat posed by quantum computing to traditional cryptographic methods, which could compromise the security of GNSS services in the coming decade. The study highlights that while quantum computers threaten classic asymmetric cryptography …

Verra has published a digital soil mapping (DSM) tool that facilitates the robust and verifiable quantification of greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon dioxide removals in agricultural land management (ALM) carbon projects. VT0014 Estimating organic carbon stocks using digital soil mapping, version 1.0 provides guidance for the development, calibration, and validation of data-driven modeling methods to estimate …