A system and method using a multi-element digital beamformer for detection
and mitigation of spoofer and repeater threats to GPS that would not be
addressed by baseline signal-to-noise (SNR) maximization algorithms is
disclosed. GPS correlators and processing are applied to multiple beam
outputs to detect and locate spoofer and repeater threats. In the
beamformer processing, detected threats can be spatially nulled, even in
the presence of traditional high power jamming, by modifying the normal
sample covariance matrix to introduce synthetic nulls. A digital complex
weighting system multiples each input channel by a complex (gain/phase)
weight and adds the weighted channels together to form beams that the GPS
receiver can use to reacquire the satellites in use without knowledge of
platform attitude or the antenna manifold.