GPS jamming, spoofing and cyberattacks on navigation systems are no longer just scenarios from films – today, they are a real threat to the Baltic Sea and Poland’s territory. Reliable positioning and time synchronisation are now crucial not only for transport and energy production, but also for national security. This is why the Polish PNT Shield is being created. It is one of the key projects strengthening Poland's digital and technological sovereignty, in which the Centre of Informatics Tricity Academic Supercomputer and networK of the Gdańsk University of Technology is actively involved.
The Polish PNT (Positioning, Navigation, Timing) Shield is based on the integration of systems from the Ministry of National Defence (Department of Infrastructure at MND, General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces-P5), the Ministry of Digital Affairs (National Institute of Telecommunications-National Research Institute) and the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography/Surveyor General of Poland, Polish Space Agency) around a common ICT solution.