Accelerating Deployment of Resilient Counter-UAS Technology

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8 December 2025

Article Summary

The Challenge: Modern counter-UAS systems face a vulnerability where GPS denial breaks the synchronization between radar tracking and effector targeting, rendering platforms ineffective against agile drone threats in contested environments.

The Solution: Advanced Navigation bridges this capability gap by integrating resilient inertial navigation systems to provide the continuous, high-fidelity heading and attitude data required for precise fire control.

The Outcome: Deliver operationally resilient C-UAS platforms that maintain tracking precision in electronic warfare conditions, supported by a scalable, ITAR-free supply chain that reduces programmatic risk and accelerates deployment.

You bear the weight of delivering counter-UAS technology that is not just effective, but operationally-resilient.

The tactical environment is now saturated with small, fast, and agile drone threats that require counter-UAS (C-UAS) technology to maintain full detect-track-engage cycle on the move and under electronic warfare conditions.

The reality today, however, is that GPS denial exposes a vulnerability, compromising the seamless synchronisation between radar tracking and effector targeting.

This gap in capability creates a security risk that can instead be filled with a precision inertial navigation system (INS).

When Synchronization Fails, Threats Prevail

In a contested environment today, the loss of GPS can have devastating consequences.

For a C-UAS platform, the entire fire control solution depends on a precise understanding of the platform’s own position, attitude, and heading. Without a stable and accurate heading reference, the link between what the counter drone radar sees and where the effector is aimed is broken.

The result is a cascade of failures:

Delayed engagement: The system struggles to build a reliable track, delaying the decision to engage and shrinking the window for successful interception.
Misclassification: Inaccurate kinematic data leads to a higher probability of misclassifying threats, potentially allowing a real threat to penetrate security.
Wasted firepower: Without precision pointing, effectors are fired with a low probability of intercepting, wasting limited resources and exposing the platform to unnecessary risk.

This translates directly to a compromised system that cannot deliver on its core objective, which is protecting personnel and assets from aerial drone threats.

Precision Heading for Reliable Fire Control

The key to overcoming this vulnerability lies in an INS that delivers continuous, high-accuracy heading and attitude data, independent of GPS availability. Advanced Navigation’s INS solutions are engineered specifically to solve this problem, providing the high-fidelity data required to synchronise a counter-UAS effector with a radar track with dependable precision.

Our advanced inertial systems are designed to ensure that even while on-the-move or in a complete GPS-denial scenario, your radar’s tracking data remains precision synchronized with the fire control system. This provides the effector with the pointing accuracy needed to engage drone threats, regardless of signal jamming.

Supporting Your C-UAS Technology

We know that program requirements are not one-size-fits-all. Therefore, we offer a range of precision solutions tailored to meet specific performance and SWaP-C targets.

Certus Evo: High-Accuracy Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)

For C-UAS platforms where SWaP-C is a driving constraint, the Certus Evo offers an optimal balance of performance and ruggedization. As a next-generation, MEMS-based GNSS/INS, it provides the reliable, high-accuracy heading and attitude data required for mobile C-UAS applications. Its dual-antenna heading capabilities ensure rapid and accurate heading acquisition, making it an ideal choice for systems that need to be operational moments after deployment.

The Certus Evo is designed and tested against a suite of MIL-STDs, ensuring it will stand up to the shock and vibration profiles typical of tactical vehicle integrations. The Certus Evo is an ideal choice for vehicle-mounted or dismounted combat where deployment speed and minimal SWaP-C are paramount.

Boreas D Series: FOG-Grade Precision for High Performance

When mission parameters demand the absolute highest tier of inertial performance, the Boreas D50, D70 and D90 deliver. Leveraging our digital Fiber-Optic Gyroscope (FOG) technology, Boreas offers performance in a tactical package. Its low noise and high stability provide a reliable heading accuracy, ensuring the effector can be aimed with precision over long engagement distances.

This is the solution for high-value C-UAS platforms tasked with defending against the most sophisticated threat profiles. The Boreas is a reliable solution for high-value C-UAS platforms, such as those protecting fixed-site infrastructure or providing area security, where engagement range and precision are non-negotiable.

A Partner, Not Just a Supplier

Your success is measured by rapid innovation to keep up with evolving threats, meeting schedules, controlling costs, mitigating risks, and ultimately, delivering a field-ready capability that your frontline can trust.

Choosing a supplier is an important decision; choosing a programmatic partner ensures success. Here’s how Advanced Navigation aligns with the specific demands of your C-UAS programs:

Reducing Risk in Your Supply Chain & Manufacturing Schedule

The drone threat evolves weekly, not yearly. Your program cannot afford to be stalled by supply chain delays or an inability to scale production. Unlike suppliers who struggle to move from prototype to volume, we have invested heavily in our vertically-integrated manufacturing. For your C-UAS program, this means:

Schedule adherence: We can reliably meet the aggressive production schedules required for Urgent Operational Needs (UON) and Programs of Record.
Scalability on demand: We can rapidly scale from initial Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) units for testing to the Full-Rate Production (FRP) required for fielding across an entire force. This agility ensures the technology you qualify for is the technology you can field, without costly delays or redesigns.

Accelerating Global Deployment & Interoperability

Your C-UAS mission is inherently a coalition fight. Defending against drone threats requires seamless cooperation with allies and partners. Our status as an ITAR-free supplier is a significant programmatic advantage, directly enabling:

Simplified export: You can integrate our INS solutions into your C-UAS platform with the confidence that selling it to partner nations won’t be encumbered by months or years of complex ITAR licensing delays.
Enhanced coalition interoperability: Through removing export barriers, we make it easier to establish common platforms and capabilities among allied forces, strengthening collective security against a shared, global threat.

Building Tactical Reliability at the Edge

Your C-UAS platforms operate in the most demanding conditions, mounted on tactical vehicles navigating rough terrain, exposed to extreme temperatures, and subjected to the shock of nearby weapons fire.

Our commitment to MIL-STD compliance is central to our design philosophy:

Designed for the environment: Our systems are engineered from the component level up to comply with MIL-STD-810H and MIL-STD-461G standards. This includes robust ECCM capabilities designed to counter sophisticated electronic warfare threats, including GPS jamming and spoofing. This means your C-UAS platform’s pointing and stabilization capability won’t fail due to environmental stress or deliberate electromagnetic interference from adjacent systems, such as high-powered communications or enemy jamming assets.
Higher system availability: This intrinsic ruggedness translates directly to higher operational availability and lower lifecycle maintenance costs-key metrics for any successful program.

Delivering Precision in a Contested World

Your choice of an INS partner directly impacts your program’s risk, schedule, and ultimate operational effectiveness.

Advanced Navigation can support you with a programmatic path defined by ITAR-free flexibility, scalable manufacturing, and a steadfast commitment to delivering a capability that will function under the most demanding tactical conditions.

To discuss your specific program requirements and learn how our INS solutions can mitigate programmatic risk and deliver a decisive advantage, contact our defense team today.

FAQs

How easily do your INS solutions integrate with our existing C-UAS architecture?

Our systems are designed for ease of integration with your counter-UAS technology platform using standard, well-documented communication protocols, including Ethernet and CAN. We provide a comprehensive software development kit (SDK) and direct engineering support to minimize the integration burden on your team. This ensures that the data from your counter drone radar is seamlessly fused with our high-fidelity inertial data for immediate fire control synchronization.

How do your INS solutions address the stringent SWaP-C constraints of modern C-UAS platforms?

We know that SWaP-C is a design driver for any mobile counter-UAS technology. Our MEMS-based systems, such as the Certus Evo, are specifically engineered to provide exceptional performance in a minimal form factor, drawing very little power. Even our highest-performance Boreas offers a 40% reduction in SWaP-C compared to standard solutions, providing you with a favorable cost-to-performance ratio.