ALIS keeps you sure about where people, vehicles and assets really are, even indoors, underground and in hard-to-reach places. It uses the sensors already in your devices, not satellites or Wi-Fi.
By integrating physics-based modeling with artificial intelligence, iDvera sets a new standard of trusted location intelligence that is resilient, verifiable, and secure. ATI is proud to support iDvera as they develop their technology and expand their impact across mission-critical applications where trust, accuracy, and reliability are crucial.
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From hijacked freight to jammed airspace, GPS and related signals are already being manipulated at scale. Here are recent examples from major outlets.
GPS spoofing incidents targeting commercial shipping have surged sharply as military operations against Iran intensify. Vessels across the Middle East are receiving falsified position data, raising alarms about maritime safety and the weaponization of location infrastructure.
Read storyAmerica's adversaries are weaponizing GPS vulnerabilities, turning a cornerstone of modern infrastructure into a strategic liability. Without resilient alternatives, the U.S. faces mounting risks across defense, transportation and critical systems.
Read storyA Waymo robotaxi drove onto Phoenix light rail tracks, forcing a passenger to flee as trains approached from both directions. The vehicle's navigation failed to recognize newly-constructed rail infrastructure.
Read storyIn a Taiwan scenario, China's layered PNT approach—BeiDou plus terrestrial backups—could outmatch America's GPS-dependent forces. Experts call for a "system-of-systems" resilience strategy.
Read storyFrom Denver airport disruptions to vulnerable power grids, GPS interference threatens vital networks across America. Experts warn the economic risks are vastly underestimated.
Read storyOrganized crime rings using cyber tools to infiltrate freight marketplaces, stealing $318M+ in cargo this year. DOT seeking strategies as industry warns: "The vetting process has gone out the window."
Read storyGPS signal loss events nearly doubled from 31 to 59 per 1,000 flights between 2022 and 2025. IATA Director General calls for pilots to be "more vigilant" as interference spreads beyond conflict zones.
Read storyGPS jamming and spoofing now hit more than 1,500 flights a day, turning navigation interference into a routine safety and operations risk for airlines.
Read storyIn the first four months of 2025, Sweden logged nearly 123,000 GPS jamming or spoofing incidents, with April alone disrupting more than a quarter of flights.
Read storyIn just 11 days in June 2025, more than 12,000 GPS spoofing incidents were recorded worldwide, with 97% of affected ships suddenly "jumping" onto land and into false ports.
Read storyFourteen major aviation groups, including Airlines for America and ALPA, formally warned U.S. agencies that GPS interference is becoming a direct, systemic threat to aviation and maritime safety.
Read storyAs jamming and spoofing become routine in contested regions, U.S. defense leaders are turning to quantum and physics-based navigation as resilient alternatives to GPS.
Read storyWired tracks thousands of planes and ships hit by GPS jamming and spoofing, with experts warning of cascading impacts on infrastructure, logistics and communications.
Read storyReuters highlights a U.N. aviation resolution condemning repeated satellite-navigation interference in the Baltic region after numerous GPS incidents affecting commercial aircraft.
Read storyIndia's government confirmed spoofed signals near major airports that disrupted satellite-based navigation for hundreds of flights, forcing a return to conventional backups.
Read storyBusiness Standard shows how rising GPS spoofing is pushing governments to build backup positioning, navigation and timing systems to safeguard critical infrastructure.
Read storyNot breaking physics. Giving it more to work with.
Most location systems assume GPS, Wi-Fi or cell towers are telling the truth. When those signals are jammed, spoofed, blocked or just wrong, everything built on top of them fails.
ALIS doesn't start from the network. It starts from physics, using the physical world as its reference frame and fusing it with the sensor data your devices already produce, via physics-native AI models that estimate where something is and how sure you can be.
ALIS is modular by design: it can ingest different combinations of sensors and run in different environments without changing the core physics-native AI engine or code path. Turning on additional channels simply gives that same engine more to work with.
ALIS treats the physical world as the starting point, not an afterthought. Instead of trusting whatever the network reports, it checks whether a claimed location is even physically plausible. If a location would require the laws of nature to be wrong, ALIS treats it as suspect, regardless of what GPS, Wi-Fi or the app says.
ALIS works with sensors that already exist in modern devices and infrastructure, and gets stronger as you add more channels over time. It can run on a baseline set of sensors alone, or pull from additional signals such as BLE or other available channels to refine where a device is and how stable that estimate is.
For each burst of readings, ALIS converges on likely locations and assigns confidence to each. It provides a position in GPS-denied or otherwise untrusted environments – outdoors, indoors, underground and in contested areas – and feeds that location and confidence into identity, KYC and access-control workflows as a separate, physics-native signal.
Different positioning technologies have different strengths and vulnerabilities. ALIS fills the gaps where GPS and other methods fail.
| Capability |
GPS / GNSS
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Wi-Fi
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Cellular / 5G
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ALIS
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works outdoors | Yes | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| Works indoors | No | Yes | Degraded | Yes |
| Works underground | No | If deployed | No | Yes |
| Resistant to spoofing | No | No | Partial | Yes |
| No infrastructure required | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Works in urban canyons | Degraded | Variable | Variable | Yes |
| Uses device sensors only | No | No | No | Yes |
iDvera works with organizations where trusted location is foundational to safety, integrity and compliance. Our focus spans freight verification, identity assurance, infrastructure resilience, emergency response and critical operations in GPS-denied environments.
Verify carriers. Validate loads. Stop fraud before it starts.
The freight industry loses billions annually to double-brokering, cargo theft and identity fraud, often hidden behind spoofed GPS and VPNs. ALIS uses device sensors and physics-native models to give brokers, shippers and carriers a high-confidence signal of where drivers and equipment actually are, not just where they claim to be.
Location as the fourth authentication factor.
Traditional MFA and device checks rarely prove where someone is physically located, which weakens zero-trust and workforce KYC. ALIS adds a sensor-derived location factor, giving security teams a separate signal that high-risk actions happened only from verified places, even when GPS or network data are easy to manipulate.
Secure operations in GPS-denied and contested environments.
Energy grids, water systems and industrial facilities increasingly face GPS jamming, spoofing and outages in the environments where safety and uptime matter most. ALIS provides GPS-independent positioning for crews and assets, so OT teams can see where work is really happening and cross-check that against the physical world instead of relying on satellite signals alone.
High-integrity location for high-stakes transactions.
Trading, payments and custody operations are under growing pressure to prove physical presence for high-risk activities, not just logins and IP addresses. ALIS supplies a physics-native location signal that plugs into KYC/KYB and AML workflows, helping institutions separate legitimate activity from location-based fraud that bypasses GPS and IP checks.
Precision positioning where GPS can't reach.
Warehouses, factories and large facilities need accurate positioning for inventory, equipment and people, but GPS doesn't work indoors and adding new beacon infrastructure everywhere is costly. ALIS uses the existing physical environment and device sensors to deliver fine-grained indoor positioning, plus a confidence measure so operators know when to trust what they see.
Mission-critical positioning when it matters most.
First responders, defense and government teams often operate indoors, underground, in urban canyons or contested areas where GPS is unreliable or unavailable. ALIS gives them a position and a confidence score that holds up in GPS-denied environments, supporting command-and-control, accountability and post-event review.
If any of this matches what you're seeing on the ground, we should talk.
Request a briefingHow physics-based positioning becomes a trust layer for identity, logistics and infrastructure.
Why coordinate truth should not be an act of faith — how physics-anchored verification addresses the quiet failure mode in high-consequence systems.
Read the PaperModern systems fail because they act on positions that should not have been trusted. ALIS treats location as a claim, not a fact.
The foundational paper on physics-anchored location trust
A strategic view of why the next wave of digital trust will rely on physical signatures, not just satellite signals and IP addresses.
For security, logistics and infrastructure stakeholders
Patterns for incorporating location assurance alongside identity, device health and behavior.
For CISOs and identity architects
How location assurance supports emergency response and continuity planning.
For infrastructure partners
Treating physics-native context as a first-class feature in AI policy engines.
For AI governance architects
A seasonal meditation on resilient PNT — why "fusion without trust is just averaging lies."
A lighter take on a serious problem
iDvera exists because our founder watched a "trusted" location story fall apart. While consulting for a SaaS company, he was asked to quietly validate two new hires who were supposed to be based in Chicago. Their schedules looked identical, they were often offline at odd hours, and every digital signal (VPN, device checks, IP-based location) still said "Chicago."
One day both accounts briefly came online without the usual VPN, revealing they weren't in Chicago, they weren't within CONUS as required, and they weren't even two people – it was one individual posing as two employees from overseas.
That experience raised a simple question existing tools couldn't answer reliably: "How do you know someone is where they say they are?" iDvera was started to answer that question. Greg, the founder and inventor of ALIS, spent several years developing the physics-native technology behind the system, working closely with his father, to figure out how to verify location alongside identity, KYC/KYB, fraud and access-control data.
As the technology matured, the company needed more than an invention. Greg's father joined as a co-founder, and in 2025 Stephen Kaniewski, former CEO of Valmont Industries, joined as a co-founder as well, bringing deep experience in industrial infrastructure, global operations and customer relationships. Stephen has helped shape how iDvera shows up in the market and get ALIS in front of the organizations that need it most.
Today, the founding team is evolving ALIS into both a verification layer and a location capability that can operate even when GPS and common wireless signals are missing, jammed or untrustworthy, so "where" can stand as a signal organizations can actually trust.
Coverage of our technology, team, and the growing urgency of location integrity.
After five years leading Valmont Industries, Stephen Kaniewski chose a startup tackling one of the hardest problems in modern infrastructure — knowing where things actually are. He joined iDvera as Co-Founder & COO to bring Fortune 500 operational depth to physics-native location assurance.
Read the storyA focused, technical team operating at the intersection of physics, navigation and security, with a mandate to deliver a system that is straightforward for organizations to adopt.
Greg leads the vision for ALIS and iDvera's physics-native location assurance system. He holds multiple patents in GPS-independent positioning and location verification technology. His background spans navigation systems, position-assurance and work with defense and critical-infrastructure stakeholders.
Former CEO of Valmont Industries, a publicly-traded Fortune 1000 industrial manufacturing company. Stephen brings deep experience in M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and scaling operations from mid-market to enterprise level—including selling mission-critical equipment to defense contractors and industrial operators.
30+ years of healthcare leadership and operational expertise. Former CEO of Hahnemann University Hospital / Graduate Hospital, leading large academic medical center operations. Former Executive Vice President at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, overseeing institutional strategy and operational excellence.
Tell us a bit about your environment and we'll show you how ALIS applies – whether that's freight verification, location-based access, or positioning in GPS-denied environments.
