RTX’s Collins Aerospace business has received approval for full-rate production of the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Generation II (MAPS Gen II) system, the company announced on 11 March 2025.
Following the fifth delivery order of the jam- and spoof-resistant navigation solution, Collins will produce thousands of MAPS units for installation on US Army and US Marines Corps combat vehicles and military watercraft. MAPS fuses sensor data – including satellite navigation information and secured positioning, navigation and timing data – for both crewed and uncrewed ground vehicles.
“Through close co-ordination with our customer, we’ve met the modernised fielding requirements for MAPS while reducing production costs,” Sandy Brown, vice president and general manager for Resilient Navigation Solutions at Collins Aerospace, was quoted as saying in a company press release. “MAPS Gen II is a critical part of the [US Department of Defense’s] modernisation goals and will provide the warfighter with trusted access to assured PNT when they need it most.”
MAPS Gen II is comprised of two line-replaceable units that cleanly replace the existing navigation system in a vehicle for easier upgrade and sustainability: the NavHub-100 navigation system, which generates and distributes assured position, navigation and timing (APNT) information to all systems on board the platform through one device; and the Multi-Sensor Antenna System (MSAS-100) anti-jam antenna. The solution brings heightened protection levels against evolving threats to GPS to support multi-domain operations and mitigate the evolving electronic threats that warfighters now face. Among the benefits of MAPS Gen II are Military Code (M-Code) capability and improved levels of reliability through patented modernised signal tracking (MST) that enhances GPS integrity.
The US Army selected Collins Aerospace to provide the MAPS Gen II solution in October 2019.
