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Session C10: GPS in Military Applications/NAVWAR

Navigation Warfare within NATO
Joseph T. Page II, Joint Navigation Warfare Center
Location: Ballroom D
Alternate Number 1

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a 32-member alliance, relies on positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) information for many of its operational missions, platforms, and institutional goals. Across the modern battlespace and civilian infrastructure, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have shown to be increasingly susceptible to Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), both intentional and unintentional. NATO has long recognized the importance of reliable PNT information required for the nations’ modern weapon systems, platforms and personnel engaged in alliance operations in the air, land, space, maritime and cyberspace domains.
This briefing will cover the structure of the NATO Navigation Warfare Capability Team (NAVWAR CaT) and its on-going Program-of-Work within the alliance and member nations. Creation of the NATO NAVWAR Playbook, NAVWAR Primer, CONOPS, and NAVWAR Standardization Agreement (STANAG) are only a few successes the NAVWAR CaT has brought to the alliance’s many partners.
The NAVWAR community of interest within NATO includes domain stakeholders within space, cyberspace, and electromagnetic operations (EMO) communities, in addition to the individual nations and their categorization of NAVWAR considerations. Primarily a defensive organization, NATO’s need for NAVWAR covers the gamut of activities from PNT-Situational Awareness to defensive measures to obtain trustworthy PNT data. Underpinning the CaT is a strong program of work, detailing test, trials, exercises, documentation, and engagements from command post exercises (CPXs), field training exercises (FTXs) to field-testable equipment integration during full-scale NATO exercises across the European continent.
Organizational stakeholders, such as the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), the NATO Space Centre of Excellence (CoE), and NATO Space Operations Center contribute toward the program of work, supporting obtaining and relaying critical information relating to PNT and NAVWAR in NATO operations.
This briefing will present results from the 2024 December review of the NATO NAVWAR CaT’s program of work, updates through mid-2025, and preparation for the June 2025 meeting in Europe.

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