British and French researchers are collaborating to improve resilience against security threats for technology systems used in critical national infrastructure, including utilities and emergency services. The focus is on positioning, navigation, and timing systems, with the Ukraine war highlighting vulnerabilities like signal-jamming. Initiatives such as enhanced long-range radio navigation (e-Loran) are being explored as backups to GPS. Leaders emphasize the importance of cooperation to boost economic growth and enhance national security while addressing increasing threats from hostile state actors.
The technology in scope of the agreement includes positioning, navigation and timing systems that critical national infrastructure suppliers rely on, forming part of a wider suite of joint science and tech work.
Disruption to PNT systems can have significant cascading effects across societies, as shown by the Ukraine war where such systems were deliberately targeted with signal-jamming by Russian threat actors.
Enhanced long-range radio navigation, or e-Loran, is being explored as a GPS backup, using ground-based radio towers to provide navigation should GPS become degraded.
The UK and France aim to strengthen national security and economic growth through technological collaboration, renewing a historic partnership to face growing threats from hostile state actors.
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