Waltham, MA-based Raytheon announced on August 8 that it received security certification for new GPS modules and receivers from the Global Positioning Systems Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
The new modules and receivers
will give military aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and weapon systems secure
and reliable access to modernized GPS.
“Because GPS is under
constant attack, we worked with our government partners to create new M-code
modules and receivers that give the military secure and resilient navigation
systems,” said Eric Ditmars, vice president of Raytheon’s Secure
Sensor Solutions. “And since the tech is platform agnostic, it will work
on a wide-range of platforms in the air, on the ground or at sea.”
Raytheon’s military code common
GPS module was certified, along with its ground-based GPS receiver, or GB-GRAM,
and the avionics GPS receiver, or GRAM-S/M. GB-GRAM and GRAM S/M are
jointly developed with Trimble Inc., while General Dynamics provides
cryptographic capabilities for the modules.
“Operators need a system that is flexible and fast,” said Chad Pillsbury, director of Resilient Navigation at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. “We’ve designed these GPS systems with a common security architecture – meaning we can get this capability in the hands of operators faster and eliminate the need for additional security certifications.”
Source: Raytheon
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