{"id":934519,"date":"2026-02-05T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/spirent-partners-with-esa-to-spearhead-pnt-resilience-initiative-for-critical-national-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:55:29","slug":"spirent-partners-with-esa-to-spearhead-pnt-resilience-initiative-for-critical-national-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/spirent-partners-with-esa-to-spearhead-pnt-resilience-initiative-for-critical-national-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirent Partners with ESA to Spearhead PNT Resilience Initiative for Critical National Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spirent Partners with ESA to Spearhead PNT Resilience Initiative for Critical National Infrastructure<\/b><\/p>\n

Project establishes innovative test framework to help UK operators, providers and suppliers adopt best practice and benchmark success<\/i><\/p>\n

PAIGNTON, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–Spirent Communications<\/a>, now part of Keysight Technologies, a leading provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, today announced it has partnered with the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead an initiative aimed at increasing the resilience of Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems used in Critical National Infrastructure (CNI). The initiative will see Spirent and partners deliver a comprehensive test framework designed to drive measurable resilience in PNT systems for users, operators and providers of CNI in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\nThe new initiative, supported by Element 2 of ESA\u2019s Navigation Innovation and Support Program (NAVISP), is designed to raise awareness and improve resilient PNT test and assessment by providing a pathway to assess, validate and rate PNT equipment and services used in critical national infrastructure. With the 2023 UK Government report The Economic Impact on the UK of a Disruption to GNSS*<\/i><\/a> estimating a 7-day GNSS outage could cost the UK economy \u00a37.6 billion, the importance of the new initiative is clear, with CNI heavily dependent on satellite-based PNT systems and data.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe increasing reliance on PNT underpins operations that people and businesses rely on every day,\u201d said Mark Holbrow, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at Spirent Positioning. \u201cBut for years, organizations have been wrestling with a fundamental challenge: they know PNT resilience matters, but they do not have a clear way to measure it or benchmark their progress. This new initiative changes that by building the tools and frameworks that let critical national infrastructure operators quantify resilience, track it, and improve it over time, and we’re proud that ESA has entrusted Spirent to lead this exciting three-year project.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe new initiative will support the UK Government’s Resilient PNT Strategy by enabling access to rigorous, quantitative test evidence and operational insights that help evaluate and validate PNT systems across essential sectors. It will comprise three core components:<\/p>\n