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