Resilient PNT, Anti-Jam, and Electronic Maneuver
Keeping accurate positioning, navigation, and timing when GPS is jammed, spoofed, or denied.
1Plain-English explanation
PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) — positioning, navigation, and timing — underpins almost every modern military system, from navigation to precision effects to the timing that synchronizes networks. When GPS is jammed or spoofed, all of that degrades at once.
This lane covers resilient PNT under jamming and GPS-denied conditions, anti-jam techniques, and electronic maneuver: inertial, visual, terrain-relative, and signals-of-opportunity approaches that keep a force oriented when the primary signal is gone.
“Do my systems still know where and when they are when GPS is being jammed or spoofed?”
Maintain accurate positioning, navigation, and timing when GPS is jammed, spoofed, or denied — preserving navigation, precision, and network timing under electronic attack.
- How does accuracy degrade as jamming and spoofing intensify?
- Which alternative-PNT approaches does it use, and how do they complement each other?
- Is the form factor compact and manufacturable enough for the platforms that need it?
- What is the timing performance, not just the positioning performance?
- Are the inertial, RF, and processing components from trusted sources?
2Why it matters to the warfighter
Maintain accurate positioning, navigation, and timing when GPS is jammed, spoofed, or denied — preserving navigation, precision, and network timing under electronic attack.
3What Ukraine has shown
Russian jamming has degraded GPS-guided systems in Ukraine on a large scale, driving rapid work on alternative-PNT approaches. The lesson is that resilient PNT is not a niche concern — it is a precondition for almost everything else on the modern battlefield.
4What U.S., EU, and allied partners need to evaluate
Allied forces need PNT that holds up in denied and degraded environments, in compact and affordable form factors, with a trusted supply story for the sensing and processing inside.
5What Helicon looks for
- Compact, manufacturable form factors with tactical SWaP-C.
- Multiple complementary alternative-PNT approaches rather than a single point of failure.
- Strong timing performance, not only positioning.
- Trusted inertial, RF, and processing components.
6What Helicon can help prepare
- A demonstration of resilience in a denied or degraded environment.
- An assessment of trusted sensing and processing supply.
- A review of export posture and IP ownership.