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Developing opportunities
for the PRS service
in FP7 3rd call
Xavier Bertinchamps
PRS Technical Officer
GSA-Security Department
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Foreword
• “PNT is integral to U.S. national security, infrastructure,
and prosperity; however, in most cases its role is not
obvious.
• In terms of national security, PNT is vital to command, control,
and communications capabilities and to all forms of precision
operations such as locating targets, delivering weapons on target,
and providing logistical support.
• From a national economic perspective, PNT plays a critical role in
the operation of transportation, communications, power
distribution networks, emergency response operations, and other
critical infrastructures. ”
(National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Architecture Implementation Plan, Public Release)
• What about Europe
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Growing Galileo – PRS Agenda
• Overview of GSA Security Activities (Morning session)
• GSA and its Security Department
• Why PRS
• PRS in FP7-3rd call
• Applications for PRS (Afternoon session/Applications -
Commission)
• Mass market and niche sectors
• Professional applications
• Technologies for PRS Receivers (Afternoon session/receivers - GSA)
• What is PRS
• R&D roadmap for the PRS Receiver in GSA
• Collaborative projects for PRS Receivers
• Constraints for sensitive Collaborative projects
• Overview of the PRS-PMR tender
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GSA supports marketing and security of EU GNSS
Political
Oversight
European
Council and
Parliament
Programme Management
European
Commission
Implementation
European Space
Agency (ESA)
assistance
European GNSS
Supervisory Authority
(GSA)
IOV contracts
FOC contracts
GNSS Security & Monitoring Centre
Security accreditation
Marketing of the service
Market monitoring
Applications R&D
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GSA Tasks on Security and PRS
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Why PRS
• Several THREATS to GNSS services
1. Denial of service (DoS)
2. Spoofing
3. Misuse
• Against EU / MS interests
• Several security NEEDS for critical applications
⇒ PRS
1. Improved Continuity of Service
2. Authentication
3. Access Control
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Jamming threat and need for improved continuity
• Signal power at reception side is very low
• Can be easily jammed by
• Non-intentional RF interference
• Intentional jamming
• Jamming is countered by
• PRS signal
• Wider band Signal
• Band Diversity (L1 + E6)
• Additional measures
• Signal processing, hybridization techniques
• Controlled Radiation Pattern Antenna (CRPA)
• Spectrum monitoring, law and enforcement
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Other forms of DoS and need for improved continuity
• The need of continuity for PRS applications translates
into two kind of measures
• Measures on Galileo infrastructure assets, as a general rule
⇒Benefits to all Galileo services
• Additional measures specifically designed to support PRS in
case of direct attack
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Spoofing threat and the need for Authentication
• GNSS signals can be generated and radiated so to make
receivers calculate counterfeit and hazardous PVT
• GNSS spoofer is essentially a GNSS signal generator +
transmitter element
• Spoofing is countered by crypto techniques
• Crypto Key must be protected
⇒PRS is encrypted and PRS keys are protected
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Misuse threat and the need for Access control
• Satellite navigation is a force multiplier
• Providing more efficiency to command, control,
communication, intelligence, accuracy of weapons
• When national security is threatened, it may be
necessary to deny adversaries from any GNSS capability
• Access to GNSS shall be controlled by
• Capability to deny by local jamming of all but controlled
services
• Control of the access to the PRS service
• PRS Key dissemination is controlled
• Access to PRS equipment and technology is controlled
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Drivers for PRS technologies and Applications
• Galileo programme schedule
• Early services planned for 2014-2015
• Initial Operational Capability
• 18 Satellites
• PRS, OS & SAR available beginning of 2014
• Need to think about the needs from 2014 onwards
• Need to complement PRS with other GNSS constellations
• Need to anticipate
↗Raising of threats
↗Raising of dependency on GNSS
↗Continued general trend towards more security
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Budget outline
• GSA’s Calls for proposals : €27.5 m
• 3 CP topics where PRS is mentioned
• Professional applications
• New & innovative applications & services for mass market & niche sectors
• Technologies for PRS receivers
• GSA’s Calls for tenders
• Integrated PMR and PRS receiver architecture : € 0.9 m
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What Collaborative Projects are we looking for
• Objectives
• Marketing potential for PRS
• Added value through system integration with
leveraging effect of trusted PVT
• R&D focused on technological gaps in PRS Receivers
• Constraints
• Takes into account relevant security standards and
regulations
• Uses iterative development, with early prototypes
⇒ Need for effectiveness, synergies, leveraging
effects, partnership, and use of civil technology
wherever possible
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THANK YOU
Xavier Bertinchamps
PRS Technical Officer
European GNSS Supervisory Authority
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