NextNav Receives DOT Award to Enhance PNT Services as GPS Backup

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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2024

NextNav (Nasdaq: NN), a leader in advanced positioning, navigation, timing (PNT), and 3D geolocation, has announced receiving a new award from the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT). This award will support real-world field tests of NextNav's 3D PNT technologies, designed to provide critical infrastructure with reliable PNT information when GPS is unavailable or compromised due to envi

NextNav Receives DOT Award to Enhance PNT Services as GPS Backup
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2024

NextNav (Nasdaq: NN), a leader in advanced positioning, navigation, timing (PNT), and 3D geolocation, has announced receiving a new award from the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT). This award will support real-world field tests of NextNav's 3D PNT technologies, designed to provide critical infrastructure with reliable PNT information when GPS is unavailable or compromised due to environmental, unintentional, or intentional disruptions.

The U.S. DOT will evaluate NextNav's 3D PNT technology, a terrestrial-based solution that serves as both a complement and backup to GPS. This award is part of the U.S. DOT Volpe Center's Complementary PNT Action Plan. According to the DOT, these awards will "facilitate adoption into systems that depend on secure and reliable PNT services."

In 2021, the U.S. DOT recognized NextNav's technology as the top-performing PNT solution across "all applicable use cases." NextNav's terrestrial PNT technology offers a comprehensive 3D positioning solution suitable for outdoor, urban, and indoor environments, featuring highly accurate vertical location capabilities. Additionally, NextNav's solution includes a timing source to act as a backup when GPS services are disrupted or unavailable.

"As NextNav continues to develop technology solutions to address national security, economic, and public safety needs, we are pleased to engage with the U.S. DOT on the mission-critical work of testing our complementary PNT services," said NextNav CEO Mariam Sorond. "We realize the importance of a terrestrial PNT complement and backup to support our nation's critical infrastructure, and we look forward to working with the U.S. DOT to demonstrate our PNT capabilities."

This new award from the U.S. DOT coincides with NextNav's ongoing petition to the FCC to reconfigure the lower 900 MHz spectrum band (902-928 MHz). The goal is to optimize this spectrum for a terrestrial PNT backup and complement to GPS, as well as for additional 5G broadband spectrum.