PANEL: Safeguarding the Signals: UK’s Strategic Investment in Resilient PNT Infrastructure

The UK is making a landmark investment to protect the PNT signals that underpin national security, critical infrastructure and everyday economic activity. With disruption from jamming, spoofing and other interference becoming more frequent and consequential, this session will explore how government funding is enabling a more resilient, layered PNT ecosystem combining improved timing infrastructure, interference monitoring and complementary non-satellite capabilities. Bringing together government, defence, industry and academia, the discussion will focus on turning strategic intent into operational resilience, and how to close the persistent gap between rising risk and slower commercial investment while defence applications increasingly drive adoption in contested environments. Key Takeaways - Understand why protecting PNT has become a national priority as interference risks escalate - Examine how a layered PNT architecture builds operational resilience - Explore how government and defence demand can accelerate adoption and close the gap between rising risk and slower commercial investment