NAVSYS Corporation has secured a $4.4 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development (RAPID) Laboratory. The contract is part of AFRL’s Commercial Alternative Positioning, Navigation, and Timing for RAPID (CAPR) program, aimed at enhancing the Department of Defense’s (DoD) access to robust and resilient PNT services, especially when GPS is unavailable or compromised.
Project Scope and Objectives
The contract involves developing and maturing NAVSYS’ PNT as a Service (PNTaaS) system architecture. This technology leverages existing SATCOM signals to provide PNT services, utilizing broadband signals outside of the L-band frequencies, which are often subject to jamming. The system employs multiple frequency allocations, including C-band, Ku-band, and K-band, to ensure high resilience and performance equivalent to GPS.
Test results previously published by NAVSYS have demonstrated the system’s capability to use satellites operated by Intelsat, Viasat, Eutelsat, SES and Telesat to deliver back-up PNT capability to GPS.
Dr. Alison Brown, CEO of NAVSYS, commented: “Affordable alternatives to GPS and GNSS are critically needed to support PNT applications in areas where GPS is now being denied. We are excited about working with AFRL and our SATCOM partners to accelerate deployment of the PNTaaS capability to provide resilient PNT alternatives when GPS is unavailable.”
NAVSYS will showcase its PNTaaS solutions at the Joint Navigation Conference, June 3-6 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
