--- title: FAA Gets Serious About Aviation Airwaves | daily.dev description: The FAA is seeking new systems to detect and geolocate radio interference across U.S. airspace in seconds or minutes rather than days or weeks. The push... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/faa-gets-serious-about-aviation-airwaves-4cbyne1t3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FAA Gets Serious About Aviation Airwaves | daily.dev og:description: The FAA is seeking new systems to detect and geolocate radio interference across U.S. airspace in seconds or minutes rather than days or weeks. The push... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/faa-gets-serious-about-aviation-airwaves-4cbyne1t3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4cbyNe1t3.png og:image:alt: FAA Gets Serious About Aviation Airwaves og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FAA Gets Serious About Aviation Airwaves **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The FAA is seeking new systems to detect and geolocate radio interference across U.S. airspace in seconds or minutes rather than days or weeks. The push follows a critical Government Accountability Office report and interference affecting many of the 30,000 radio frequencies aviation relies on. At an October industry day, FAA official Dan Murphy said the current detection model, which can take a few days to a month or more to find a source, 'is no longer working.' Candidate approaches include satellite geolocation from companies like Spire Global and HawkEye 360, and ground-based detection using cellphone tower GPS receivers from startup Dimetor. Certifying such a system to aviation standards could take years and many millions of dollars, according to Humphreys. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How long does it currently take the FAA to locate a source of GPS jamming or spoofing? It can take anywhere from a few days to a month or more, and intermittent signals might never be traced at all. FAA Vice President of Technical Operations Dan Murphy says this model 'is no longer working' and the agency wants to cut detection time to seconds or minutes instead. _Anyone tracking aviation spectrum security follows FAA jamming response updates on daily.dev._ ### How do satellites geolocate GPS jammers affecting aircraft? Companies like Spire Global task a pair of low earth orbit satellites to simultaneously record the same stretch of spectrum, using differences in signal arrival time and Doppler shift to estimate a transmitter's location. Spire says it has estimated jammer locations from a single satellite pass, often after using ADS-B data to narrow down the likely zone. _Engineers evaluating satellite-based interference detection track this approach on daily.dev._ ### Can cellphone towers help detect GPS jamming for aviation use? Yes, most modern cellphone towers already have GPS receivers for timing synchronization that can also assess nearby interference. Austrian startup Dimetor is building a system, aided by an ESA project called NAVISP, to aggregate data from tens of thousands of these tower sensors so pilots could know about jamming roughly 20 miles ahead. _Those weighing ground versus space-based interference detection follow these developments on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [ORNL builds more sensitive GPS interference detector](https://daily.dev/posts/ornl-builds-more-sensitive-gps-interference-detector-l2ez6takr) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [6 GHz Wi-Fi Flaws Could Disrupt Critical Systems](https://daily.dev/posts/6-ghz-wi-fi-flaws-could-disrupt-critical-systems-w1hx6qami) · Dark Reading · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875 million worth of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/the-faa-s-plan-to-fix-air-traffic-875-million-worth-of-ai-yjebmwcxy) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/faa-gets-serious-about-aviation-airwaves-4cbyne1t3) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"FAA Gets Serious About Aviation Airwaves","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/faa-gets-serious-about-aviation-airwaves-4cbyne1t3","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/faa-gets-serious-about-aviation-airwaves-4cbyne1t3"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T08:02:11.003Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T08:16:27.640Z","description":"The FAA is seeking new systems to detect and geolocate radio interference across U.S. airspace in seconds or minutes rather than days or weeks. 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