How ITAR-Free Navigation Shortens Your Delivery Timeline

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3 November 2025

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The Challenge: Strict export controls on high-performance navigation components create significant project delays, supply chain vulnerabilities, and restricted global market access for technology integrators.

The Solution: Advanced Navigation produces products designed and manufactured without ITAR-controlled components, delivering navigation solutions without being subject to export restrictions.

The Outcome: Accelerate your time-to-market, remove key barriers to global market access, and build more resilient supply chains, giving you a commercial and strategic advantage.

Navigating complex export controls for high-performance components is a primary source of project delays, budget overruns, and restricted market access.

Regulations such as the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) can introduce significant uncertainty to procurement.

At Advanced Navigation, we remove this bottleneck by design, providing inertial navigation systems (INS) designed for streamlined global deployment, accelerating your time-to-market without compromising on capability.

Facing Export Control Regulations

Few of us relish navigating complex export control regulations.

When an INS is classified under ITAR, it immediately introduces a series of challenges that go far beyond technical specifications:

Project delays & unpredictability: Weeks, or even months, can be added to your schedule waiting for export licenses. This can mean missed deadlines, forfeited contracts, and a frustrated customer base. This unpredictable waiting period can create significant uncertainty for project managers.
Restricted market access: Does your end product need to be sold globally? An ITAR-controlled component can limit where you can sell, to whom, and for what purpose. Entire regions or customers might be off-limits, shrinking your potential market and impacting your long-term growth.
Supply chain vulnerability: Geopolitical shifts or changes in US foreign policy can, without warning, impact your ability to source or export ITAR-controlled components. This introduces an unpredictable element of risk to your supply chain that is outside of your control.
Increased overhead & legal fees: Managing compliance requires internal resources, from legal teams to compliance officers, all adding non-value-added costs to your project budget.
Reduced agility: In fast-moving industries, the ability to pivot and adapt is crucial. Export restrictions can make rapid prototyping, international collaboration, or quick market responses significantly more complex.

Export-Ready, High-Performance Navigation

For too long, the narrative has been that top-tier INS products are inherently tied to ITAR controls. If you wanted superior performance, you had to accept the export restrictions that came with it.

On the other hand, while some may opt for lower-grade, non-ITAR components to avoid export delays, this forces a compromise on performance that we know customers simply cannot afford.

But the world has changed.

Advanced Navigation delivers high-performance INS solutions manufactured without ITAR-controlled components, allowing you to achieve both market-leading technical capabilities and unrestricted global deployment.

Our INS products deliver:

Exceptional accuracy: Millimeter-level precision, even in challenging environments.
Robust performance: Engineered for performance in every environment and qualified to key military standards (MIL-STD-810H & MIL-STD 461).
Compact & efficient design: Our vertically integrated manufacturing delivers highly compact and efficient designs, minimizing size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) to enhance platform endurance and payload capacity.
Seamless integration: With agnostic hardware and software interfaces and responsive support from our in-field experts, integration is simplified, reducing engineering overhead.
Resilience beyond GPS: Our fiber-optic gyroscopes (FOG) and sensor fusion technology ensures continuous, reliable navigation even in GPS-denied or contested environments.

Your Strategic Partner for Inertial Navigation Solutions

Our vertically integrated manufacturing and onshore production facilities give us an exceptionally high degree of control over our supply chain.

This model not only ensures our products remain free from ITAR restrictions, but also enables rapid production and delivery, decoupling your project timelines from geopolitical uncertainty and complex licensing.

Accelerated project timelines: Remove the delays associated with export licenses. Get the solutions you need, when you need them, and keep your projects on track and on budget.
Simplified global market access: Integrate our INS into your drones, autonomous vehicles, or subsea platforms, and market them to a global customer base with significantly fewer regulatory hurdles. Open up new revenue streams and expand your total addressable market.
Supply chain resilience: Decouple your navigation solution from the complexities of geopolitics. Build a robust, predictable supply chain that isn’t vulnerable to external policy shifts.
Focus on innovation: Reallocate valuable engineering and legal resources away from navigating complex compliance and back towards what you do best: innovating and delivering solutions to your organisation.

Take Control of Your Supply Chain

Relying on components with restrictive export controls can be a significant, and often unnecessary, limitation that directly impacts your bottom line and your growth trajectory.

Advanced Navigation is the choice for INS solutions not subject to ITAR controls. We empower you to design without borders, procure without anxiety, and sell without compromise.

Reduce roadblocks in your project and eliminate export delays by exploring our product portfolio of inertial navigation systems not subject to ITAR controls, or contact us to discuss your procurement needs.

FAQs

What is considered “ITAR-controlled”?

An item is considered “ITAR-controlled” if it is specifically listed on the United States Munitions List (USML). The USML is a comprehensive list of defense articles, services, and related technical data that are regulated by the US Department of State.

In the context of navigation, certain high-performance gyroscopes, inertial measurement units (IMUs), or GPS receivers that are specially designed or modified for military use fall under USML categories.

What does “ITAR-free” mean?

“ITAR-free” means that a product, technology, or service is not on the United States Munitions List and is therefore not subject to the jurisdiction and export control regulations of ITAR.

Essentially, an ITAR-free product provides a much simpler, faster, and more predictable path for integration into systems intended for a global market.

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