Uncertainty over satellite constellation means alt-GPS capability up in the air: Official
The Space Development Agency's planned Navigation Layer, if it proceeds, would provide both the location of GPS jammers and alternate PNT signals.
Vulcan’s first Space Force launch to carry long-delayed experimental PNT satellite
Vulcan's heaviest version, which will use six solid rocket motors, still awaits Space Force certification.
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Next X-37B mission to carry quantum sensor, laser link experiments
Quantum sensors hold promise to serve as the core for new systems for positioning, timing and navigation (PNT) that could provide an alternative, or even replace, today's Global Positioning System satellites.
Changes in FCC rules to support GPS alternatives could impact DoD
The FCC's concerns echo those from DoD and the Space Force about the ease of GPS jamming — and the rapid rise in deliberate jamming by governments and militaries in hot spots around the world such as Syria, Ukraine and the Red Sea.
How to maximize the resiliency of PNT
The Pentagon "needs to double down its focus on bringing M-code fully online, rather than getting distracted by efforts like R-GPS," Clayton Swope of CSIS writes in this op-ed.
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AI is transforming pilot training and the aircraft they fly
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
White House charges Pentagon to develop cislunar monitoring tech, including for ‘planetary defense’
The new White House plan for cislunar S&T tasks DoD to lead development of new, and/or improvement of current, ground- and space-based sensors for monitoring the cislunar region.
Lots of ‘buzz’ but no ‘compelling’ military value for cislunar space: CSIS
A new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies details a number of serious obstacles to cislunar operations, from a lack of robust business cases to the literal fabric of time.
To attack enemy space capabilities, Army eyes doubling expert cadre
"We're very much complimentary to the Space Force and to the other services, but we truly do see space as that critical component to set the theater well in advance of phase one operations," Col. Donald Brooks, commandant of the Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, told Breaking Defense. "When the first round is shot, the missile is shot, space needs to be there months, if not years, in advance to help set those conditions."
Space Force taps 4 firms for first phase of ‘Resilient GPS’ program
The four companies chosen for the GPS augmentation program are Astranis, Axient, L3 Harris, and Sierra Space.
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Navigation warfare is about the battle to assure positioning, navigation, and timing
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
Aussie military inks contracts for quantum clocks to aid ‘maritime domain awareness’
The ADF statement carefully notes that these "are key objectives under AUKUS Pillar II," but it does not claim that they are being done as part of the second pillar, which focuses on a range of advanced technologies, including quantum, artificial intelligence and autonomy.
Boeing to launch experimental quantum networking satellite, Q4S, in 2026
Boeing's approach goes beyond Chinese experiments with space-based Quantum Key Distribution and could enable ultra-precise timing and sensing, said chief engineer Jay Lowell.
Ensured SATCOM, GPS alternatives tops among Space Force budget wishes
"Every dollar invested brings asymmetric returns, while every cut risks asymmetric losses, given the continued advancements of the competitors, the Space Force budget needs more, not fewer, resources to do our job," said Gen. Michael Guetlein, Space Force vice chief.
White House advisory group blasts US government, DoD inattention to GPS woes
The President’s National Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board recommends that the Biden administration create a new “locus of authority and accountability for PNT decision-making beyond DoD GPS program management.”