The Royal Navy and merchant fleet have no back-up if navigation systems are disrupted, experts warn.
The Labour peer, who was the UK's first cyber-security minister under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is convinced the government needs to act to protect the British fleet.
GPS - the Global Positioning System - was developed by the US military in the 1970s and has largely replaced pulsed radio transmissions as the main maritime navigation system. "Every country in the world has shut down these radio transmitters," Mr Evans, says, leaving seafarers "dumbfounded" because rogue states or an electromagnetic pulse from the sun could severely disrupt satellites.The first system to provide satellite communications was Inmarsat, which is still in use today
Solar flares can severely damage some of the electronics on GPS satellites says Jean-Charles Gordon, maritime analytics manager of the shipping publication Lloyd's List. The could affect both Royal Navy and merchant shipping, he says, although it is understood that the Royal Navy uses systems designed to evade jamming.Another disruption technique is spoofing. This involves providing false GPS data to a receiver, which then gets gradually more misleading, sending a ship further off-course, Mr Gordon says., a British-flagged ship, was probably lured by Iran into its waters using spoofed satellite data, says the editor of Lloyd's List, Richard Meade.
But without transmitters based in other countries, any radio-based system would only work in UK territorial waters. At this time, the government has no funded programme for an eLoran system in UK waters or British Extended Economic Zones., the government said it was committed to strengthening the resilience of the "position, navigation and timing services on which our critical national infrastructure and economy depend".
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