Michael Jones

Michael is a Deputy Head of Engineering at Roke, where he is also a Principal Consultant Engineer. He has an exceptionally broad skill base encompassing sensing, communications, navigation, and electronic warfare, and has specialist interest in PNT Warfare. He gained a First-Class Master’s degree in electronic engineering with avionics from the University of York in 1999, and was awarded the Racal prize for best avionics degree.

Over the past 24 years he has developed some the world’s leading navigation warfare technology, and the world’s first true anti-spoofing technology. His work is in service on a variety of MoD and DoD platforms around the world, and on the surface of Mars. He is a global authority on adaptive antenna GNSS systems, including interference cancellation, adaptive beamforming, direction finding, and threat classification.

He specialises in the simulation, modelling and hardware implementation of advanced signal processing algorithms, and has led a number of FPGA and ASIC designs for radar, GPS, EW and communications systems. Whilst remaining primarily technical, he also undertakes people management, product management, project management, and business development activities.

Michael is recognised internationally for his work, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in recognition of his significant and sustained contribution to the field of navigation warfare, and a Fellow of the IET. He has a number of publications on GNSS interference countermeasures, acted for a number of years as Defence Editor for GPS World, and invited speaker at various international conferences.