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Accurate and resilient timing is essential for critical applications. It is the fundamental requirement to synchronize operations. But what do you do when your GPS receiver is in a basement and underground, with marginal availability of GNSS signals? This was a challenge for GMV, a global technology corporation that produces WANTime time service for the city of Madrid, Spain.

It’s no secret that GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing are on the rise. The federal government’s PNT Executive Order specifically aims to protect critical infrastructure from these threats and other disruptions to critical PNT services. That’s why it’s important to protect your critical systems with GPS jamming and spoofing detection technology like BroadShield.

The US military needed a time synchronization solution for critical reconnaissance data as part of an aircraft modernization program. To accurately receive sensor data, receivers on surveillance aircraft must stay on frequency and the recorded data must be time stamped for data center synchronization across the military communications network.

A large U.S. power authority contacted Orolia wanted to replace twenty time servers and potentially serve as their new vendor. They needed precision time stamps with command line functionality to interface with their Tripwire change/ control monitoring platform so that they could maintain NERC CIP compliance.

Military test ranges have complex requirements for PNT data. In this new case study, a defense customer needs a time synchronization solution for test range data to replace a legacy radio frequency distribution system. See how Orolia’s solution provides the accuracy to collect and synch the data along with flexible fixed or mobile form factors and configurable output signals.

A naval customer needed to ensure resilience against threats to critical oceanic data for safe navigation and situational

Orolia was contacted by a global defense infrastructure client to evaluate the obsolescence of its fixed site timing infrastructure, and the impact on overall system performance. This legacy defense network was a large installation specifically designed to synchronize multiple clocks in shelters separated over a long distance of several kilometers. These private point-to-point links were at least thirty years old. A private phone network is an example of this type of infrastructure.

Cybersecurity is the watchword of the day, but what does it mean for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)? For many, the ability to hack or spoof a GPS/GNSS signal is a cybersecurity issue. At Orolia, we agree, which is why we have a wide array of products to augment, toughen and protect against GNSS vulnerabilities.