Teresa Masterson, a writer at NBC10, first encountered the jammer on her morning commute and tipped off NBC Investigators.
The Army's main CREW system is the Warlock Duke, a vehicle- mounted radio jammer developed by Syracuse Research Corporation.
Any one of the teams could produce a state-of-the-art jammer satisfying Navy needs.
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It is widely reported a radio jammer inside the car of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stopped an attempt to assassinate him last December.
So the outcome of the Next Generation Jammer competition will have a big impact on how the military-electronics segment of the defense industry consolidates.
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But it is unknown how many sensors there are in the JLOC system, or how accurately it can determine the location of a jammer.
You can see what Swanson has achieved every time there is a competition for a new airborne jammer or advanced sensor or precision munition or tactical network.
In America there is already a military system to spot GPS interference: the GPS Jammer Detection and Location (JLOC) system run by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
The result is a fledgling new program called the Next Generation Jammer led by the Navy, which would rectify many of the most glaring deficiencies in the current jamming system.
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However, the jammer currently being used was designed in the era of vacuum tubes, so a competition has been launched to develop a system with more power, precision and versatility.
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In trials conducted by the General Lighthouse Authorities of UK and Ireland, a 1.5W radio jammer was able to knock out GPS signals over a range of 30 kilometers.
Unfortunately, development of the new jammer coincides with a period when Pentagon investment in new technology is expected to decline markedly, so there is no guarantee the Next Generation Jammer will stay on track.
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At the present time, that signal can be jammed very readily and the Russians, whom we have encouraged to learn free market ways, now have on the free market a commercial jammer that you can purchase.
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