The problem with your theory is that it didn’t know it was being spoofed to begin with. Now it will take years of research, endless government grants and how many acts of Congress to find out how they did it before they can actually be allowed to fix it. Re; the government study of the study to study the studies on the validity of studies? Reading the original story, they were able to totally take over the thing.
Most people don’t realize that ANYTHING the government produces as far as technology is at least 10 years behind the latest technology.
Its due to the huge bureaucratic pile of regulations, paperwork, delays in funding, and all other factors that turn any governmental technical procurement into a “turtle.”
Most importantly, palms must be properly “greased” before any final action is taken.
Spoofing GPS is not hard, but to do so and get past two humans in direct contact is almost impossible.
So, yes, the operators knew it was being spoofed.
Additionally, INS (internal guidance) is a back-up.
Can't “hack” the UAV/RPV command link. Would need NSA-grade crypto-crackers.
So, watching GPS jamming/spoofing is an interesting exercise in technology but was not a threat to the control of the platform. . .like I said, you have at least two humans in the loop that would detect the platform going off kilter and they would disengage the auto-pilot and make flight control inputs to fly the platform.
Now it will take years of research, endless government grants and how many acts of Congress to find out how they did it before they can actually be allowed to fix it.
They need to back off the fascist thing.