The Global Positioning System has long been a great tool for military—and, of course, civilian—activities, but the military’s heavy reliance on it also makes it a likely target. Which is the rationale behind a Defense Department instruction issued Feb. 5 that both mandates the use of what’s called Navigation Warfare, or Navwar, and provides guidelines for the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) tools used in Navwar—including the possibility of technologies other than GPS.
For starters, the instruction from DOD Acting CIO Terry Halvorsen directs all of the military services and other DOD components to employ Navwar, in a move that emphasizes the ever-growing importance of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Pentagon last year updated its electronic warfare policy, calling for EW to be incorporated into the full range of military capabilities, including navigation warfare. Read more
Source: Defense Systems
