Virginia Tech and university partners aim to protect, toughen, and augment transportation navigation systems

A new Tier 1 University Transportation Center has been established to help make transportation networks more resilient to cyber attacks, such as spoofing and jamming.

By Jama Green

Sandeep Jada (right) and Casey Smith test sources of signal interferences in Mathieu Joerger’s Assured Vehicle Autonomy (AVA) Lab.
Master’s student Casey Smith (at left) and doctoral candidate Sandeep Jada test sources of signal interferences in Mathieu Joerger’s Assured Vehicle Autonomy Lab. Photo by Jama Green for Virginia Tech.

We don’t realize how heavily dependent we are on GPS in our car navigation systems, our location-based smartphone apps, the timing of our access to cell towers – until the technology experiences interference and failures.

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