Manassas, Virginia, September 16, 2025 – The Institute of Navigation awarded Dr. Jason Anderson its Bradford W. Parkinson Award on September 12, 2025, during the ION GNSS+ 2025 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, for his thesis: Designing Cryptography Systems for GNSS Data and Ranging Authentication.
Jason Anderson received his PhD from Stanford University where his research in the Stanford GPS Lab pertained to constructing efficient cryptosystems for GNSS. Before Stanford, Dr. Anderson received a Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering degree from UC Berkeley. Dr. Anderson has worked at SpaceX, General Atomics, and is currently working at Xona Space Systems as a Senior Security Engineer.
This award, which honors Dr. Bradford W. Parkinson’s leadership in establishing both the U.S. Global Positioning System and the Satellite Division of the ION, recognizes an outstanding graduate student in the field of Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT) and/or Applications.
The Institute of Navigation is a not-for-profit professional organization advancing positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). The Institute is a national organization whose membership spans worldwide. Additional information about the ION can be found at ion.org.
