Navigation Warfare Compatible Small GPS User Equipment (SGUE)

ABSTRACT: The objective of this SBIR program is to develop a highly integrated Military GPS User Equipment that can provide accurate and robust position, navigation and timing (PNT) capability to size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) sensitive military users operating in the emerging navigation warfare (NAVWAR) environment. In the emerging NAVWAR scenarios, the GPS receiver should be capable of mitigating the jamming threats from the enemy forces (Red Force Electronic Attack) as well as from the friendly forces (Blue Force Electronic Attack or BFEA) and provide situation awareness of the RF environment. A robust Electronic Protection (EP), Situation Awareness and a configurable BFEA filtering capability is thus needed to be integrated in the solution. Mayflower"s focus in the Phase I program is to perform feasibility analyses of the SGUE architecture and develop suitable interfaces to integrate the MGUE with the EP and other important subsystems to meet the Air Force objective of providing reliable PNT solution to the SWaP-C constrained platforms, namely, Soldier handheld systems and small UAVs. The Phase II program will build prototype components of the SGUE system to demonstrate feasibility of the design. BENEFIT: The proposed technology development will result in highly SWAP-C optimized NAVWAR compatible (integrated with EP, BFEA and other subsystems) Small GPS User Equipment (SGUE) that can be deployed in the disadvantaged Soldier handheld systems and small UAVs.