How to Deliver Radar Precision Without Programmatic Risk

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15 September 2025

Article Summary

The Challenge: Sourcing a high-performance INS that delivers radar pointing accuracy while mitigating programmatic, supply chain, and international compliance risks.

The Solution: Advanced Navigation delivers INS products that are ITAR-free to remove compliance barriers, vertically integrated to secure the supply chain, and tested to military standards to de-risk integration.

The Outcome: An accelerated radar program that delivers on time and achieves reliable performance and mission success.

When it comes to defense radar programs, achieving high-performance radar accuracy is the primary technical objective. Program managers are responsible for delivering on this, all while navigating immense programmatic pressures and the challenge of sourcing critical components such as an inertial navigation system (INS).

Too often, program managers are forced to make difficult trade-offs between mission-critical performance and other key requirements. You’re asked to choose between pointing accuracy, compliance, exportability, or availability, while facing the reality that compromising on any one of these introduces significant risk to your program’s schedule, budget, and its effectiveness in a radar application.

Our INS solutions are specifically designed to deliver both radar accuracy and solve programmatic challenges simultaneously, empowering you to close operational gaps and ensure mission success.

Why Partner with Advanced Navigation

Your responsibility for delivering a complex system that delivers on technical performance is only one part of the challenge.

You need products that not only perform reliably, but also can address the critical programmatic challenges that can derail defense acquisition programs.

At Advanced Navigation, our products are ITAR-free, meet comprehensive military standard compliance, and are supported by a resilient, responsive supply chain to simplify international collaboration, and accelerate delivery timelines.

Rapid Production and Delivery

The global defense industry is frequently hampered by long component lead times and supply chain vulnerabilities, which have been exacerbated by recent global events. A delay in a single critical component can have cascading effects on an entire program’s schedule.

Advanced Navigation stands among a select few globally with the in-house capability to design and manufacture its own high-performance FOGs. This level of control over the entire production process provides two decisive advantages:

Rapid delivery: Direct control over manufacturing enables us to provide you with short lead times. This responsiveness allows programs to meet urgent operational needs, accelerate development cycles, and maintain aggressive fielding schedules.
Supply chain security: Advanced Navigation’s vertically integrated manufacturing reduces dependency on a complex web of external suppliers for critical components. This insulates production from the geopolitical and logistical risks that can disrupt global supply chains, ensuring a more secure and predictable source of supply.

ITAR-Free

Our products are ITAR-free. This is both a strategic and programmatic advantage for your program without the need for the extensive and often lengthy licensing processes mandated by ITAR. The practical benefits are immediate and substantial:

Simplified procurement: Allied nations can acquire our products directly, without the need to navigate the complex and time-consuming processes or apply for specific export licenses, which can take many months to secure.
Enhanced Interoperability: Actual coalition interoperability requires the seamless ability to integrate, test, and share data about common systems. Our products allow allied partners to work with the hardware and its technical data without restriction.
Accelerated timelines: By removing a major source of administrative and governmental delay, the ITAR-free status allows multinational defense programs to proceed on more aggressive and predictable schedules.

Certified Rugged Compliance

The Boreas series is designed and tested to meet rigorous military standards, providing documented, quantitative proof of its suitability for the battlefield. This pre-certification significantly reduces the technical risk and integration cost for the end user.

The Boreas D70 and D90 for example are certified MIL-STD-810H to withstand the severe shock, vibration, and extreme temperature ranges characteristic of radar systems that may be deployed on a ground combat vehicle or naval vessel, backed by standardized laboratory testing.

Our products do not emit harmful electromagnetic interference (EMI) that could disrupt nearby equipment, and is not susceptible to EMI from its operational environment. We are compliant with MIL-STD-461G to coexist and function within an existing radar system. This dramatically reduces the risk, cost, and time required for system-level EMC integration and testing.

Why Choose the Boreas D Series for Radar Systems

The Boreas D70 and D90 are high performance INS’ engineered specifically to deliver defense radar accuracy without the programmatic setbacks.

Radar Accuracy

The Boreas D70 and D90 delivers the pointing accuracy demanded by both stationary and mobile radar platforms, which translates to higher track confidence, reduced target location error, and enhanced performance in Electronic Warfare (EW) environments. In particular for mobile radars that are mounted on moving vehicles, Boreas delivers heading accuracy in GPS-denied and degraded environments.

Improved Operational Readiness

A critical vulnerability for mobile radar systems is the over reliance on GPS for heading alignment. The performance of our FOG (Fibre Optic Gyroscope) technology enables the Boreas D70/D90 to perform fast north-seeking to deliver a high-accuracy heading within minutes of start-up. With a low gyro bias instability, the Boreas minimizes heading drift over time, which is crucial for maintaining long-term track accuracy. Furthermore, its Angle Random Walk (ARW) ensures sensor noise is negligible, providing the stable, precise pointing needed for reliable target tracking.

Industry-leading SWaP-C

Our Boreas D70 and D90 offer industry-leading Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) profile for its performance class. This provides a distinct strategic advantage, enabling integration onto a wider range of space-constrained radar platforms such as tactical vehicles, while reducing the power budget and thermal footprint of the overall radar system.

Seamless integration

To ensure rapid and low-risk integration into your radar system architecture, the Boreas D70/D90 supports a comprehensive set of interfaces (Ethernet, CAN, RS232/422) and industry-standard protocols (NMEA, CANopen, NTP, PTP). This flexibility simplifies communication with existing mission computers and command and control networks.

Deliver Accuracy and Reliability to Your Radar Program

Whether your radar programs are stationary or mobile, we offer proven solutions that have less export burdens through our ITAR-free status, are rigorously tested to military standards for performance assurance, and offer dependable supply consistency.

This empowers you to build more effective international partnerships, accelerate your program timelines, and deliver reliable and accurate radar performance with confidence.

Advanced Navigation is the chosen INS provider for government defense agencies, prime contractors, and leading commercial organisations who require high performance and supply chain assurance. Contact our team to discuss your radar program’s specific requirements.

FAQs

How complex is the integration into a radar platform with strict SWaP constraints?

Our INS products are specifically designed for demanding SWaP-constrained environments. Their compact form factors and low power requirements allow for straightforward integration on nearly any mobile or stationary radar platform. Engaging with our application engineers early ensures the INS is optimized for your architecture. This approach protects your platform design while maximizing radar precision.

Can Advanced Navigation products be retrofitted onto an existing platform that’s already showing performance issues?

Our INS units can be integrated into existing platforms to provide an immediate and significant improvement by feeding a trusted, independent heading source to the radar payload. This upgrade directly addresses issues like beam-pointing drift and tracking instability. Upgrading the INS is one of the most cost-effective ways to boost the radar accuracy of a fielded system.