National PNT Architecture Implementation

FAA APNT Industry Day

Karen Van Dyke

May 3, 2012

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

PNT Strategic Landscape is Changing

□ Missions & Applications

▪ Greater need for PNT Services

▪ Affects civil, military, and commercial communities

□ Technology

▪ Rapid Change affecting PNT Services

□ PNT Services

▪ More providers - increased competition and/or integration

Strategic Vision Needed

□ Sustain and advance global PNT capabilities

□ Meet long term user needs affordably and effectively

National PNT Architecture Background

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

PNT Capability Gaps

Promote efficiency and effectiveness

- Avoid duplication of activity

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

National PNT Architecture Recommendation Tree

Vision

Strategy

Vectors

•Re

co

mm

en

da

tio

ns

•Synergy of PNT

&

Communications

•Cooperative

Organizational

Structures

•GPS – An

Architecture

Cornerstone

•Augmentation

Transition

Opportunities

•PNT Signal

Monitoring &

Dissemination

•Multiple

Phenomenologies

•Interchangeable

Solutions

•Standards &

Reference Frames

•Grids &

Coordinate

Systems

•Info Exchange,

Assurance &

Protection

•Interchangeability

with Foreign PNT

Sources

•Integrated User

Equipment

•Civil Use of

Foreign PNT

•US Military Use

of Non-Military

Signals

•Evolution of PNT

Capabilities

•Synergy of PNT

&

Communications

•National PNT

Coordination

Process

•Protect Strategic

Advantage

•Critical

Infrastructure &

Time

•High Accuracy

with Integrity

US Leadership in Global PNT

The US can Best Achieve Efficiency and Effectiveness through a

Greater Common Denominator Approach

•PNT Pseudolites

& Beacons

•Phenomenology

& Application

Champions

•Modeling &

Simulation

Framework

•19

•18

•17 •16

•14

•13

•12

•15

•8

•7

•6

•9

•10

•11

•3

•2

•1

•4

•5

•3 •2 •1 •4

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

National PNT Architecture Implementation Plan

• 40+ tasks places the PNT community on a path to achieve the 2025

Should-Be Architecture

□ Eliminate capability gaps

□ Introduce efficiencies in acquisition and operations

• Tasks map to the National

PNT Architecture

strategy, vectors, and

recommendations

•The Implementation Plan must evolve to account

for progress and environmental change

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

National PNT Architecture Implementation Plan

National Architecture Implementation Memorandum

□ Signed by Assistant Secretary of Defense for NII and Undersecretary of

Transportation

□ Released July 28, 2010

□ Approves the Implementation Plan

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

Near Term

• Identify current and planned efforts across the interagency that support

National PNT Architecture recommendations and Implementation Plan tasks

- Examine areas that are being worked by industry and universities

• Map future planned activities against PNT Architecture Implementation Plan

• Iterative, near-term implementation plans will nudge us from the

Evolved Baseline (EBL) to the “Should Be” curve

Longer Term

• Perform assessment of how well we are moving toward

“Should Be” Architecture

• Perform gap analysis of tasks not being implemented

National PNT Architecture Assessment

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U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

Examples of Ongoing PNT Initiatives:

How Do They Fit Into the “Big Picture”?

Civil Signal

Monitoring

FAA Alternative

PNT Program

DHS GPS

National Risk

Estimate

PNT IDM

CONOPS

USCG

UrsaNav CRDA

DOD

GPS & PNT

AoAs

IDCT

ICG

SMWG

CGSIC

NCO

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

National PNT Architecture Graphic (2025)

•EMI •EMI

•GPS

•Tracking

•Celestial

•Star

Trackers

•Commercial

Augmentations

•Beacons

•ENABLERS & INFRASTRUCTURE •USNO •NIST

•Star Catalogs

•Cryptography

•Modeling

•Standards •Science & Technology

•Policies •Mapping/Charting/Geodesy •Electro Optical Info.

•Reference Frames •NGA •NGS

•NSA

•Testing •Industrial Base

•Laser Ranging Network

•Launch

•Networks

•User Interface Orgs

•Pseudolites &

Beacons

•Geospatial Data

•PNT User

•Equipment

•Autonomous

•Inertial

•Sensors & Sensor

Aiding •Clocks

•N

•S •E •W

•Wireless

•Networks

•Space Comm &

•Nav Arch

•Pseudolites

•SATCOM

•Aiding Data &

Ranging

Signals

Synergy of PNT and

Communications Multiple

Phenomenologies •Ground Based Radio Freq

•Foreign

GNSS

•Cell Phone

Networks

•Pseudolites &

Beacons

•PNT signal monitoring

•Evolved

•GNSS Augmentation

•Foreign

Regional Nav

Interchangeable

Solutions

Cooperative

Organizational Structures

Environment •Weather

•Geo-political

•Fiscal

•Spectru

m •Navwar •Interference •Technological

•Demographics

U.S. Department of Transportation

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

Summary

• Demonstrating how individual projects/programs support the

national vision for PNT and address capability gaps is a “win/win”

• Architecture provides framework to conduct assessment

• Identify how programs address capability gaps and

complement each other

• Avoid duplication of effort

• Highlight areas of need – are there capability gaps not being

addressed or are there new ones we hadn’t considered?

Request agencies leverage guidance from National PNT

Architecture in future program plan development