Collins Aerospace demonstrates anti-jam navigation tech
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, successfully demonstrated its compact anti-jam Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (APNT) technology on December 22, 2025, at the U.S. Army’s All-Domain Persistent Experiment in White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The modular CMOSS Mounted Form Factor card, paired with an external antenna, fused military-code GPS and sensors to deliver precise navigation for ground vehicles amid dense jammers and spoofers, ensuring resilient performance in GPS-denied environments. India, drawing lessons from Operation Sindoor in April-May 2025—where GPS jamming disrupted adversary systems along the western border—is aggressively pursuing similar capabilities, with the Army rejecting 46 indigenous drones failing post-operation GPS-denied trials and prioritizing software-defined radios, terrain-based navigation, and anti-jamming modules for UAVs and platforms. This aligns with India’s NavIC push for self-reliant PNT in contested scenarios.
