Precision Assault Navigation System

Stephen C. Felter

Abstract:	This paper reports the results of the Precision Assault Navigation System (PANS) study performed at Lockheed Martin with funding from the Office of Naval Research under BAA N61331-98-C-0037. The objective of the study is to evaluate the adaptation and performance of the Gulf Range Drone Control System (GRDCS) for precise navigation of amphibious landing craft in and near the surf zone. Requirements for precise navigation stem from the need to traverse areas of mines and obstacles in the surf zone using narrow breach lanes that have been cleared and then electronically marked using a system as described herein. The desire for a non-GPS based system derives from concerns of GPS vulnerability to jamming and the need for 2m CEP accuracy for lane marking and navigation. The significance of this work is twofold. First, it provides a concept that could rapidly transition to a non-GPS based operational system for breach lane marking and navigation. Second, the concepts presented for deployment of transponders on buoys is applicable to any ranging signal, not just GRDCS. The results from this study could later be extended to make use of GPS-like signals from pseudo-lites, permitting the use of non-developmental GPS systems to solve the PANS navigation problem.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1999) June 27 - 30, 1999 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, MA
Pages:	253 - 261
Cite this article:	Felter, Stephen C., "Precision Assault Navigation System," Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1999), Cambridge, MA, June 1999, pp. 253-261.
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