This dual-use applications workshop places position, navigation and timing (PNT) in a shared, practical context for everyone in the room – whether you work with it daily or are encountering it for the first time. 

Navigation and timing are increasingly embedded in how our societies function, from how we travel and communicate to how our financial systems, energy networks and emergency services operate. PNT has become an invisible but essential layer of modern life, and understanding its role is the first step towards meaningful discussion about it safe use in the future.

The workshop connects this everyday reliance on PNT to its space foundations. Space-based systems enable the positioning and timing services we depend on here on earth, while PNT itself is crucial for safe and efficient space operations. By looking at PNT from both perspectives (Earth and space) the workshop sets a common baseline, highlights shared dependencies across sectors, and prepares participants to engage in deeper conversations about resilience, responsibility and innovation throughout the symposium.

Key workshop takeaways:
•    A shared understanding of what PNT is and why it matters
•    Insight into PNT supports daily life, often in ways not visible
•    Awareness of the role PNT plays for different institutions and sectors, and how these are setting up strategies for the use of PNT
•    Understanding the link between space-based PNT systems and terrestrial services
•    A common foundation for discussion on resilience, risk and future, long-term requirements of PNT systems