GPS remains one of history’s great technological feats, but its signals are vulnerable. Although the U.S. military is taking steps to deploy M-code and modernize the constellation – which could take years to decades – even a hardened GPS signal is vulnerable to the satellite itself being shot out of the sky. Warfighters and operators need to leverage resilient positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) today, not a decade from now. The answer to this dilemma might be right under our feet in the form of magnetic navigation (magnav).

PALO ALTO, Calif. Enterprise SaaS [software as a service] company SandboxAQ announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded it the Prototype Quantum Resistant Cryptography Public Key Infrastructure Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement, under which SandboxAQ will implement its SecuritySuite, an end-to-end cryptographic management solution that is intended to provide the U.S. government with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered vulnerability detection and remediation, cryptographic agility, and support for the latest quantum-resistant algorithms scheduled to be standardized by NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology].