APS™: Assured Position, Navigation, And Timing (APNT)

Our Assured Positioning System (APS™) is designed to provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) information under all operating conditions, including in contested environments where GPS or other GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is unavailable or unreliable. APS is available on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace and deemed awardable as it addresses the DoW’s most significant challenges in AI/ML, data, and analytics.

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This product has been assessed and approved by the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace and deemed awardable as it addresses the DoW’s most significant challenges in AI/ML, data, and analytics.

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What Is APS™?

Breaking Down Our Assured Positioning System (APS)

Reliable positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data is essential to the proper functioning of myriad critical applications and missions, and GPS has become the ubiquitous source of accurate PNT information. However, GPS signals and other GNSS signals are vulnerable, and GPS can for many reasons be unavailable or unreliable, including in contested environments where they may be purposely interfered or manipulated.

Our Assured Positioning System (APS™) is designed to provide reliable PNT information under all operating conditions, including in environments where GPS is inaccurate or unavailable. APS operates independently of GPS and other GNSS, so critical applications and systems that depend on PNT data can continue to function when GPS signals are jammed, spoofed, or otherwise disrupted.

How Does APS Work?

APS is a space-based solution and uses proprietary hybrid technology to derive PNT data from signals transmitted from non-GPS/non-GNSS low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites operated by a U.S.-based commercial satcom provider and from a non-GPS/non-GNSS geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satcom constellation. The signals leveraged by APS are completely independent of GPS andare not vulnerable to GPS jamming or spoofing.

Additionally, APS can be deployed as a plug-in for the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) on a user's smartphone, providing a seamless path to integrate resilient PNT capabilities into existing operational workflows.

Key Product Features

Independent backup and/or complement to GPS/GNSS

Unaffected by GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing

Leverages space-based hybrid technology to derive PNT information from signals transmitted from non-GPS/non-GNSS communications satellites

Supports military and commercial applications

Reliable PNT support for dismount, mounted, and guidance use cases

Hosted application for Peanut SDR™; Parsons’ compact multi-mission software defined radio family

Where Can APS Be Deployed?

APS can be implemented by means of either (1) a compact Parsons integrated hardware/software user-equipment (UE) package, or (2) by installing APS application software on compatible non-Parsons UE.

Parsons Integrated Hardware/Software Solution

This option includes a Parsons Peanut™ low-SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power, and Cost) software-defined radio (SDR) running APS application software.

Third-Party Hardware Integration

We offer APS application software that third parties can install/integrate on compatible non-Parsons user equipment. APS can be implemented as a plug-in to the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) residing on a user smartphone.

Peanut Software-Defined Radio™

Peanut-D (Dismount)

Peanut-M (Mounted)

Our Peanut Software-Defined Radio (SDR) family of systems (FOS) combines high performance, versatility, and value in space- and power-efficient packages.

Peanut SDRs are equipped with processing power and I/O capabilities to support a wide range of demanding military and commercial RF use cases, including but not limited to alternative and assured positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), RF situational awareness (SA), tactical edge operations, and complementary precision timing.

Peanut SDRs are available in compact enclosures for both dismounted and mounted use or as an OEM circuit card, providing flexibility to integrate mission-ready RF capabilities into a variety of platforms and applications.