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Next time you do an LPV to minimums, think about this: from AIN GPS Jamming and Spoofing On the Rise GPS jamming and interference events are growing exponentially as aircraft systems are becoming increasingly reliant upon them for primary navigation. During the last three years, Spirent Communications, a company that tests navigation equipment, has captured 150,000 different jamming and interference events. “Global navigation satellite system [GNSS] jamming essentially is as hard as it is to get your credit card out. You can go out and get a piece of jamming equipment rather easily. Yes, it is illegal, but if you are jamming GNSS you probably don't care,” said Jeremy Bennington, Spirent corporate solutions and technical strategy lead. He added that the risk to aviation safety is real and tangible. “Since 2013 the FAA Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing System has recorded more than 100 instances of pilot reports of GPS systems being jammed. But we know it was far more than that.” According to Bennington, the “Pokemon Go” augmented reality app released in 2016 encouraged hackers to spoof GPS to win prizes and put code online. “The spoofing they were doing was largely on cellphones, but you take that same code and software-defined radio and put that together along with position and timing data and you can make a fairly sophisticated GPS or GNSS spoofing device,” he said. “We've seen a huge increase in GNSS-related spoofing incidents in part because of Pokemon Go." Read Expanded Version