EASA and IATA recommend measures to counter threats from GNSS spoofing and jamming

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is to partner with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to combat increased incidences of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoofing and jamming. A workshop jointly hosted at EASA’s headquarters concluded that interference with satellite-based positioning services can pose ‘significant challenges to aviation safety’, with instances of reported incidents rising ‘in very recent years’. Measures to make position, navigation and timing (PNT) services provided by GNSS more resilient have now been agreed. These include the reporting and sharing of GNSS interference event data, alerting relevant stakeholders about attacks, maintaining a minimum operational network