Watch panelists Eric Brown, senior director of military space mission strategy at Lockheed Martin; Joe Cassady, executive director of space programs at Aerojet Rocketdyne; Colin Mitchell, general manager for space antennas, RF Systems, and PNT at L3Harris Technologies; and moderator Brig. Gen. Steven P. Whitney, director of space programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, take part in the “Mission Domain Live Engagement—Space Systems and Technology” session from AFA’s 2021 virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
For the Space Force and the U.S. writ large, the mission of position, navigation, and timing has become synonymous with three letters: GPS. That is likely to change in the coming years, as service officials described plans this week for a whole host of alternative systems, or alt-PNT.