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Session C10: GPS in Military Applications/NAVWAR

USSPACECOM NAVWA/PNT Requirements for the Joint Fight
Jennifer Thibault, PNT/NAVWAR
Location: Ballroom D
Date/Time: Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2:10 p.m.

USSPACECOM Capability and Resource Integration Directorate, Information Mobility Division, Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Navigation Warfare branch manages and leads program analysis to determine requirements, execute advocacy and influence programming and budgeting for Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Navigation Warfare systems and their associated user equipment and infrastructure to achieve DoD wide mission objectives.
Our Joint Force’s reliance on PNT information and Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) operations has continually increased over the past few decades as each of our Joint functions are increasingly dependent upon PNT information and services to execute combat operations in the way we were designed to fight. America’s adversaries are likewise becoming more dependent upon PNT information to execute their combat operations. NAVWAR operations are predicated on the U.S. Joint Force’s ability to protect our assured access to PNT information (defensive actions against adversary attack) while denying the same to our adversaries (offensive actions to deny their access to the same). While the space, cyber and EW communities operationalize PNT information into NAVWAR operations, it is the space community who leads NAVWAR efforts.
As such, USSPACECOM developed and coordinated its NAVWAR/PNT ICD that was JROC validated July 2024. This ICD establishes the foundational requirements for NAVWAR and PNT solutions fulfilling the electromagnetic warfare, space, and cyberspace elements enabling operationally effective and efficient NAVWAR from, through, and/or within the competition continuum through the 2035 timeframe. Additionally, these requirements span the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities and policy (DOTMLPF-P) spectrum.
Space Policy Directive - 7 (SPD-7), directs DoD to “identify, locate, and mitigate, in coordination with other agencies, as appropriate, any intentional disruption or manipulation that adversely affects use of GPS for military.” In line with the Strategy for the Department of Defense Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Enterprise, November 2018, Alternative-PNT (Alt-PNT) and complementary PNT using a Modular Open System Architecture must be implemented to make PNT more robust and resilient with PNT Situational Awareness (PNT SA) capability to enable U.S. and Allied forces to fight through counter-PNT (C-PNT) environments.
USSPACECOM is advocating for these requirements to be the capstone document for the Navigation Warfare mission area and a series of initial capability documents to follow that will address both the defensive and offensive NAVWAR capability areas in more depth.

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