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Is Your Current Navigation Choice Compromising Your Assured PNT Strategy?
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The Challenge: Your program is forced to choose between high-performance navigation systems that take years to procure due to ITAR restrictions, or less performant commercial systems that aren’t built for the mission.
The Solution: Advanced Navigation provides ITAR-free, inertial navigation systems, with ease of integration and interoperability across your fleet of vehicles.
The Outcome: You can deploy PNT capabilities with your tactical vehicles at-scale while mitigating project risk.
For decades, US primes and system integrators, as well as European and Middle Eastern defense organisations, faced a fundamental compromise.
To achieve assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), they had to accept complex export controls and unpredictable component availability that created friction in joint programs and jeopardized production schedules.
Conversely, to gain agility, they had to sacrifice performance with systems unsuited for the shock, vibration, and electronic warfare of the modern battlefield.
Today, this forced choice can become a hindrance on combat readiness and program strategy. In an era where NATO interoperability is essential and supply chain resilience is a core tenet of national security, the inability to rapidly field and sustain resilient technology undermines the very foundation of modern defense.
But what if you didn’t need to make that trade-off?
Advanced Navigation delivers precision inertial navigation systems (INS) that directly solve these challenges. Our solutions provide military-grade resilience without the export roadblocks, designed for the open, modular architectures that modern fleets demand for assured PNT.
The Pace of the Threat Has Changed
The key shift in modern military doctrine is the move from planning for GPS-degraded or denied scenarios to operating as if they are the default and persistent condition of the modern battlefield.
This is driven by the proliferation of low-cost, highly effective electronic warfare systems, leading to a new reality where a vehicle’s navigational resilience is no longer a feature, but a fundamental requirement for survival, including the ability to rapidly field PNT technology to keep up with the pace of electronic warfare.
The Foundation of Resilience
Our product families are specifically engineered to provide a solution without compromise, directly addressing the gaps left by the “traditional methods” of sourcing PNT.
Boreas Range
The Boreas range gives you high performance accuracy and stability for assured PNT, but without the traditional procurement obstacles.
Our FOG technology delivers exceptional performance under the extreme shock and vibration of tactical vehicle operations, all within an ITAR-free framework that eliminates procurement bottlenecks. The Boreas is also equipped with high-precision timing capabilities and supports common network timing protocols, including NTP and PTP.
This makes it the foundational PNT component for targeting, sensor stabilization, and complex manoeuvres in GPS-denied environments.
Certus Range
The Certus series is the answer to commercial MEMS systems that can’t survive the battlefield.
It combines an industry-leading low SWaP-C profile with MIL-STD certifications, providing a rugged, reliable, and easily integrated solution for crowded vehicle platforms, system upgrades, or unmanned systems.
Imagine integrating an advanced MEMS-based INS without the need for costly and time-consuming platform redesigns.
Standards, Protocols, and Procurement for PNT
At Advanced Navigation, we see that the true value of a component lies not just in its performance specifications, but in how efficiently it can be integrated into a complex system.
Designed for seamless interoperability, our hardware and software integrate with ease into your existing systems, reducing project risk and accelerating your path from prototyping to field deployment.
Ease of Integration
Our goal is to eliminate the integration challenges that typically consume time and resources. We provide you with the tools and flexibility needed to connect our systems to your architecture, not the other way around.
Universal hardware connectivity: Our systems are equipped with a range of standard interfaces, including Ethernet, CAN Bus, and RS232/RS422. This ensures out-of-the-box compatibility with the majority of vehicle data buses and mission computers, minimizing the need for custom hardware adaptors.
Comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK): We provide a robust SDK with libraries for C++, Python, and other common languages, complete with detailed example code and debugging tools, significantly reducing the time it takes to attain meaningful PNT data flowing into your application.
Protocol flexibility: Our systems can be configured to output data in a variety of formats, from industry-standard messages such as NMEA to a high-performance, low-latency binary protocol. This allows you to choose the optimal data format for your specific bandwidth and processing requirements.
Certified Reliability
Our systems are designed to operate in the challenging environment of a tactical vehicle. We’ve performed the rigorous testing so you can integrate with confidence, knowing our products are already certified and currently in-use by armed forces.
Advanced Navigation products are validated against the harsh, real-world conditions to military standards, including MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461. This includes operating through challenging temperature cycles, humidity, and dust exposure.
Furthermore, tactical vehicles are dense with high-power electronics. Our systems are certified to ensure they do not emit disruptive electromagnetic interference and are less susceptible to interference from radios, jammers, or other onboard systems. This ensures stable and reliable PNT data, regardless of the electronic environment.
Removing Procurement Roadblocks
Project delays are often caused by factors outside of engineering, with export controls being a primary challenge. Our entire product portfolio is non-ITAR controlled, which translates into direct, tangible benefits for your program.
Bypassing ITAR’s complex licensing requirements can cut months, or even years, from your procurement timeline. This means you get critical hardware for development, testing, and production on your schedule, not a regulator’s.
For joint programs with NATO or other allied nations, our ITAR-free status ensures that technical data, hardware, and support can be shared freely among partners without the legal and logistical hurdles of export controls, fostering true collaborative development.
Accelerated Timelines
We achieve industry-leading delivery times through our vertically integrated manufacturing. We have complete control over the entire production process, by designing, building, and testing our core technology, from the gyroscopes and accelerometers to the firmware and enclosure in-house.
At Advanced Navigation, we are not waiting on external suppliers for critical components, so we can move from order to delivery in weeks, not months.
Moreover, when you need support, you are not talking to a call centre. You can communicate with our engineers for faster, more effective solutions for any integration questions that may arise.
Partner with Advanced Navigation
Don’t let legacy systems and procurement bottlenecks compromise your platform’s effectiveness.
Choose the assured PNT solution that delivers superior performance, simplified integration, and the scalable supply chain availability.
Rapidly innovate your tactical vehicles with the navigational superiority they need to dominate in a contested world with our Boreas or Certus range.
Contact our defense solutions team to request technical specifications or schedule an integration consultation.
FAQs
What are the core features of assured PNT?
For a tactical vehicle, assured PNT’s primary feature is providing continuous position, velocity, and attitude data, especially in GPS-degraded or denied environments such as urban canyons or dense jungle where GPS is unreliable or when an adversary is actively jamming. A crucial second element is its confirmed integrity, ensuring the vehicle’s position on a digital map is trusted and maintains accuracy for critical tasks, including coordinating fire support or avoiding friendly fire. Beyond just location, the vehicle relies on PNT’s precise timing to enable its on-board secure communication systems that use frequency hopping and cryptography.
What is the operational importance of assured PNT?
For a tactical vehicle crew, assured PNT is operationally critical because it builds confidence and reduces battlefield stress. In combat, knowing precisely where you are, where your friendly forces are, and especially where the enemy is, allows the crew to focus on the mission instead of questioning their data. This allows the user to place their trust in the Advanced Navigation solution, which provides critical reliance on navigation where other solutions on the market fall short.
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