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Activity title

NATO PNT Open System Architecture & Standards to Ensure PNT in NAVWAR Environments

Activity Reference

SET-309

Panel

SET

Security Classification

PUBLIC RELEASE

Status

Active

Activity type

RTG

Start date

2022-05-25T00:00:00Z

End date

2025-05-25T00:00:00Z

Keywords

AlternativePNT AltPNT, Complementary PNT, GNSSDeniedDegraded, Integrated PNT, Navigation, NAVWAR, PNT Open System Architecture OSA, Positioning, Timing PNT

Background

Navigation sensors are advancing rapidly, and performance is increasing while cost, volume, and weight are decreasing. This enables new military applications and creates new military operational capabilities. A SET task group focused on developing a “NATO PNT Modular Open System Architecture & Standards to Ensure PNT in NAVWAR Environments” will enable the quick insertion and integration of complementary PNT sensors and techniques. This has the huge potential benefit to greatly improve military PNT operations in NavWar environments. NATO and its Partners require trusted, real-time PNT to accomplish critical missions in adversarial and contested NAVWAR environments. NATO needs: • GNSS NAVWAR Situational Awareness (SA) • Trusted PNT in GNSS NAVWAR environments

Objectives

The group will execute a four-year effort to develop and demonstrate a NATO PNT MOSA that maintains accurate and reliable navigation (i.e. position, velocity, and orientation) in a GNSS degraded/denied environment. Each participating nation will develop its own modular plug-n-play sensor suite and/or navigation algorithm for integration into the NATO PNT MOSA implemented on a vehicle platform. The group will explore, develop, and demonstrate what will be required to develop a modular open PNT system which: • Uses plug-n-play modules for sensors, integration algorithms, hardware, and integrity monitoring • Deeply integrates modular integrity into the architecture to maintain trust of the system in the presence of less mature sensor technologies • Integrates with existing buses and technologies, to allow wide adoption of the software architecture A technical report will be produced that describes the standards for cooperative navigation and general results from interoperational tests. The group will also hold a symposium on these topics and possibly conduct a lecture series as well.

Topics

The following topics are expected to be investigated: • PNT Modular Open System Architectures • PNT Technology Trends – Current PNT Integration / Fusion and techniques • Coop Nav (Alt (Complementary) PNT - > Cooperative) • PNT Architectures / Fusion Algorithms • Plug-n-Play Standards • Cooperative Multi-Sensor Navigation across different platform types: Ground, Air, & Dismounts

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