ALL.SPACE Hydra-4 and NAVSYS PNTaaS: The Nexus of SATCOM and PNT

NAVSYS Corporation and ALL.SPACE successfully demonstrated accurate, seamless tracking  of a vehicle’s position, navigation, and timing (PNT) in a fully GNSS-denied environment during the DoW’s emerging technologies test, Arcane Thunder. NAVSYS’s PNT-as-a-Service (PNTaaS) solution, paired with ALL.SPACE’s Hydra terminal, showcased how a hybrid SATCOM/PNT architecture can deliver reliable  connectivity and continuous alternative-PNT from a single platform, providing a “turn-key” user solution. 

“Working together, NAVSYS and ALL.SPACE rapidly deployed a field-ready alternative-PNT and  communications solution, which we were pleased to demonstrate under representative operational  conditions at the Arcane Thunder live GPS jamming event,” said Dr. Alison Brown, CEO of NAVSYS Corporation. 

The Hydra terminal maintained continuous, high-performance communications on the move without  operational tradeoffs, while NAVSYS’s equipment collected Signals of Opportunity (SoOP) data to support  alternative PNT processing. Using NAVSYS’s PNT-as-a-Service (PNTaaS) cloud-based services and signal  processing algorithms, it calculated Position and Timing in this fully GNSS-denied exercise. Looking ahead,  Hydra’s integrated edge-compute environment is designed to host advanced software capabilities at the  tactical edge, including solutions such as NAVSYS’s PNTaaS, a software-based solution that can be  incorporated into a variety of host platforms. 

“Arcane Thunder demonstrated the strength of combining NAVSYS’s PNTaaS with the ALL.SPACE platform to  deliver resilient communications and assured PNT,” said John-Paul Szczepanik, Chief Technology Officer of  ALL.SPACE. “Our joint approach showed how Signals of Opportunity can be collected, processed, and  exploited without affecting connectivity, reinforcing the value of an integrated, software-defined architecture.  

Working with NAVSYS, we are enabling a unified capability that is rapidly deployable, upgradable, and  adaptable to mission needs.” 

The effort by both companies to scale alternative-PNT coverage, integrate additional sensing sources, and  deliver increasingly flexible, field-ready solutions optimized for current and emerging mission requirements is  crucial to extending mission effectiveness and operational resilience for PNT across future defense  environments. This evolution toward an integrated, software-enabled architecture highlights how capabilities  such as NAVSYS’s PNTaaS and the ALL.SPACE Hydra can align with different frameworks to deliver resilient  communications and alternative-PNT on a single platform. 

“We are looking forward to continuing to work with ALL.SPACE as we expand our PNTaaS service into Europe  to cover areas where extensive GNSS denial is already active,” stated Dr. Alison Brown. “We see the field ready hybrid SATCOM Hydra/PNTaaS product as the only near-term, fieldable solution to provide backup PNT  capability in a completely L-band-denied environment by leveraging existing Ku- and Ka-band SATCOM signals  for PNT.” 

For more information about NAVSYS or how you can leverage its cutting-edge PNTaaS technologies, visit navsys.com or contact Dan Veal at danv@navsys.com. 

For more information about ALL.SPACE and its versatile, advanced satellite communication platform, contact Dave Schreiner at dschreiner@all.space.