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The Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 had with-in it the provision National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2018: * https://rntfnd.org
by throw0101a 11mo ago
The Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 had with-in it the provision National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2018:
* https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/National-Timing-Resilience-and-Security-Act-of-2018.pdf https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/National-Timing-Resili...
A roadmap was published in 2021:
* https://www.transportation.gov/pnt/national-timing-resilience-and-security-act-roadmap-implementation-january-2021 https://www.transportation.gov/pnt/national-timing-resilienc...
And also from 2021, NATIONAL R&D PLAN FOR POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING RESILIENCE:
* https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Position_Navigation_Timing_RD_Plan-August-2021-1.pdf https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021...
The simplest solution is to simply to resurrect the Loran infrastructure that the US (and others) run until the 2000s. The Koreans have been running eLoran for a while, and the UK and France are teaming up as well:
* https://insidegnss.com/uk-and-france-renew-ties-resilient-pnt-eloran-a-key-part/ https://insidegnss.com/uk-and-france-renew-ties-resilient-pn...
* https://rntfnd.org/2025/11/12/s-korea-leads-meeting-with-u-k-and-france-on-eloran/ https://rntfnd.org/2025/11/12/s-korea-leads-meeting-with-u-k...
Chinas has had a completely built out network (including fibre networks for high-precision timing) for over a year:
* https://rntfnd.org/2024/10/03/china-completes-national-eloran-network-the-paper/ https://rntfnd.org/2024/10/03/china-completes-national-elora...
This is not rocket surgery: a working system that can giver you continent-wide coverage can be up and running a few years, with little technical risk (there's already kit available).
Throwing some money at the problem and instructing the DOT/DHS/whomever to issue an RFI/RFP would go a long way to moving the ball forward.
- icegreentea2 11mo agoSomething like LORAN would be useful for operations near friendly nations and/or relatively uncontested areas. They don't particularly help with striking Chinese assets. Which is what the DoD funding is primarily about.
- throw0101a 11mo ago> They don't particularly help with striking Chinese assets. Which is what the DoD funding is primarily about. Why not use China's own Loran (and BeiDou) system against them?
- icegreentea2 11mo agoFor all we know that is a contingency. DoD is relatively public and transparent, but they don't reveal everything. If that was a contingency, it would just play into the the whole cyber/information/electronic/space domains aspects of the whole "multi-domain" stuff. Surely both China and the US have contingencies in place to try to determine if the opposing side is exploiting their PNT systems, and then figure out ways to subvert that in various ways.