Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) is slowly making its way into key-leader vehicles, with no concrete plans to address A-PNT for the rest of the fleet any time soon. An interim A-PNT solution from Leonardo DRS changes that for everyone.
The effort is meant to help the service integrate new A-PNT systems faster as technology advances.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
The first-of-its-kind device, a vacuum chamber for containing clouds of atomic particles that drive quantum sensors, is about the size of an avocado.
The notice is part of a broader Army push to acquire assured PNT solutions for soldiers on the future battlefield.
Brig. Gen. William Glaser, head of the Army's Synthetic Training Environment effort, said his team is "very proud" of One World Terrain because it "really just started off as an idea within the simulations community, but it's expanded out significantly into the operational community."
Leonardo DRS’ AC²ES Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing solution for MFoCS-equipped tactical vehicles creates a bridging and interim capability to fill a gap.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.