PNT Podcast

The federal fiscal year end is fast approaching, and 2021 may see an increase in end of year funds due to COVID-related procurement delays. As you explore the best use of year end funds, here are the top Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) applications government program managers and systems integrators invest in for improved performance, security and mission success.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), particularly the US Global Positioning System (GPS), are an ever-present feature of modern life. However, they provide much more than simply the positional information that most people associate them with, and which anyone with a GPS-enabled smartphone is aware of.

(And Which One Do You Really Need?)

NTP (Network Time Protocol) and SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) are similar TCP/IP protocols in that they use the same time packet from a Time Server message to compute accurate time. The procedure used by the Time Server to assemble and send out a time stamp is exactly the same whether NTP (i.e., full implementation NTP) is used, or SNTP is used.