Assessing the Impact of GPS Degradation Using Campaign-level Warfare Modeling

With increased reliance on GPS for navigation, targeting, and guidance, the threat of jamming and signal spoofing is significant. These threats create a greater risk in mission success and potentially increased casualties in U.S. and Allied force operations. GPS jamming can cause receivers to operate with a large navigation error, or with a failure to acquire the GPS signal altogether. GPS spoofing can potentially cause a receiver to report incorrect or false navigational data. Under this Phase I funding, MAXIM Systems will review engineering and campaign level DoD modeling platforms, define requirements for more granular GPS degradation models and their integration with established platforms, and build a proof of concept. Focused on realistic warfare scenarios, the goal of this work is to effectively bridge the gap between high fidelity engineering based GPS models and overarching campaign level models. Key to this process will be defining an automated data sharing design allowing the models to be executed quickly on a large scale to facilitate their use in mission planning and execution, with accurate representations of degradation in different types of unit level equipment and terrain environments.