NAVWAR Open Topic for Unified Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Operational Awareness and Decision Support

The United States Navy relies on accurate positioning, navigation, and timing information to support maritime operations, distributed forces, mission planning, and operational decision-making. As the Navy continues to field a growing number of APNT capabilities and related situational awareness systems, operators are increasingly required to interact with multiple interfaces and data sources to understand system health, confidence levels, operational risks, and available response options. This fragmented environment increases cognitive workload, complicates training, and slows decision-making. The Navy’s GPS-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Service (GPNTS) program continues to enhance APNT resilience through the development and integration of a diverse set of technologies and systems. Examples of these data-types include the opensource All-Source Positioning and Navigation (ASPN) and PNT operating system (pntOS). The Navy seeks innovative approaches capable of ingesting, integrating, processing, and presenting information through GPNTS, to include alternate PNT sources, and related situational awareness systems through a unified operational experience. Of particular interest are solutions that provide operators with rapid understanding of APNT system status, confidence levels, threats, degradations, operational impacts, and recommended courses of action. A common operating picture, “single pane of glass,” decision-support environment, or similar approach may be employed to achieve these objectives. The solutions are to transform fragmented operational data into actionable decision advantage and improve the ability of operators to rapidly sense, understand, and act in contested environments. This topic does not seek development of new Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) or APNT sensing technologies, navigation algorithms, timing sources, or hardware systems. Instead, the Department seeks expertise in software architecture, data integration, information management, user experience (UX), human-machine interface (HMI) design, analytics, visualization, and decision-support technologies that improve operator effectiveness. Industry best practices in modern software architecture standards, such as containerization for on-prem isolated runtimes will enable the rapid and secure deployment of this capability while minimizing cybersecurity risks from cross-application dependencies. Commercial industries such as autonomous transportation, cloud operations, telecommunications, logistics, and industrial automation face similar challenges in integrating information from multiple distributed systems to support rapid operational decision-making. Mature commercial technologies that have demonstrated success in aggregating, correlating, visualizing, and presenting actionable insights from disparate data sources may also be suggested. These may include industrial monitoring systems, transportation management systems, enterprise operations centers, autonomous system operations, telecommunications network management, logistics management platforms, and other environments requiring real-time awareness across disaggregated systems. Solutions do not need to be purpose-built for APNT applications if they can be adapted to address the operational objectives of this topic. Primary technology areas of interest include, but are not limited to: • Data integration and orchestration platforms • Human-machine interface (HMI) design • User experience (UX) design • Common operating picture technologies • Operational data visualization • Decision-support systems • Workflow automation • Human-centered design methodologies • Data analytics and correlation platforms • AI-enabled operator assistance • Containerized software architectures • Mission management software • Digital engineering environments Solutions outside these areas that address the stated objective may also be submitted.