PNT Resilience · Direct Intelligence
Your infrastructure depends on timing signals you have not tested.
Critical national infrastructure depends on GNSS-derived timing. Financial settlement, grid synchronisation, telecoms handover, emergency coordination — all rely on signals that are increasingly vulnerable to jamming, spoofing, and outage. Most organisations carrying this dependency have never assessed it.
Assess your exposure →Who this is for
Risk, resilience and technology leaders across critical national infrastructure: financial services, data centres and cloud, telecoms, energy, transport, emergency services and the other operators whose services depend on precise time and position. The people accountable when a timing or positioning failure disrupts operations, settlement, or reporting.
Direct Intelligence gives you a structured assessment of your exposure to PNT (positioning, navigation and timing) failure, mapped to your operational architecture. You leave knowing where you’re exposed, where you stand against regulatory expectation, and what to remediate first — documented to board and audit standard.
The escalation — 2025/26
- 19 Nov 2025
The Science Minister announces £155m for national positioning, navigation and timing resilience at the Royal Institute of Navigation's annual PNT Leadership Seminar: £71m for eLoran, £68m for the National Timing Centre, £13m for GNSS interference monitoring and £3m for space-based time transfer.
- 26 Jan 2026
The Coastal States of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, with Iceland, fourteen signatories including the United Kingdom, issue an open letter warning of growing GNSS interference threatening maritime safety in the Baltic and North Sea.
- Mar 2026
EASA and EUROCONTROL publish a joint Action Plan to keep European aviation safe through GNSS interference events, after thirteen EU member states demanded coordinated action.
- Jun 2026
Research submitted for peer review attributes a series of wide-area GNSS interference events across Europe, Greenland and Canada to a space-based source. Clements, Humphreys and others, 'Chasing Lightning', preprint arXiv 2606.03673, submitted to NAVIGATION.
- Jul 2026
EASA issues Revision 4 of its Safety Information Bulletin on GNSS interference, citing incidents growing in severity and sophistication.
The dependency that matters is not navigation. It is time.
A 24-hour loss of GNSS is estimated to cost the UK economy £1.42 billion. Seven days: £7.64 billion. (Source: London Economics for the UK Space Agency, 2021 update, published 2023.) Most of that exposure is invisible to the organisations carrying it — because the dependency that matters most is not navigation. It is time. Timestamps underpin trade reporting, grid synchronisation, transaction reconstruction, and emergency coordination. The signals providing those timestamps are not monitored, not tested, and not backed up by most of the organisations that depend on them.
The regulatory perimeter is expanding.
NIS2, MiFID II RTS 25, and DORA each place obligations on CNI operators and their ICT providers around operational resilience and timing traceability. The Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill would extend the UK’s NIS framework to further operators and suppliers. As at 4 September 2026, the Bill was before the House of Lords, having completed its Commons stages on 10 June 2026. Assessing your dependency and testing your resilience is no longer a technical option. It is a governance requirement.
What Direct Intelligence delivers
A structured PNT exposure assessment mapped to your operational architecture. The output is a written exposure profile, a regulatory position statement, and a prioritised set of remediation recommendations — documented to board and audit standard. The engagement is confidential. No findings are shared with third parties.
Six questions. Your position on the ICDM Timing Assurance Framework.
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