Disruptive Military Navigation Architectures

ABSTRACT: Azure Summit Technology,Inc. (Azure) will develop OmniNAV, a modular, open-architecture navigation receiver that derives PNT solutions from a wide variety of signals and sensors. Unlike today"s military GPS receivers, OmniNAV software and firmware is field upgradable to deliver leading edge navigation technology to today"s and tomorrow"s warfighters. The Azure approach will heavily leverage technology from the commercial smart phone industry, as well as recent innovations from DARPA, to create a navigation receiver architecture that is exceptionally difficult to jam or spoof. BENEFIT: The benefits of Azure"s OmniNAV technology include an architecture that accommodates a wide variety of navigation sensors and signals, is exceedingly difficult to deny or deceive, includes a robust Information Assurance approach, with only modestly degraded performance due to the failure of a few sensors, readily integrates new sensors and applications in the future, and does so at a relatively modest cost. No new infrastructure is required to realize the benefits of OmniNAV. This technology should directly influence next generation military navigation receiver developments.