Description
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to release a solicitation for the Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT) program. The program aims to develop revolutionary approaches to inertial sensing by leveraging nonlinear mechanical dynamics, advanced surface materials, and complex physical potential wells. The goal is to create stable, mission-ready navigation systems that can operate without relying on the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Key aspects of the program include:
• Developing new inertial sensing technologies that can operate in GPS-denied environments
• Creating advanced surface materials and complex physical potential wells for improved navigation
• Integrating physical sensor packages with advanced, real-time adaptive control systems
• Forming multidisciplinary teams to address national security challenges
• Collaborating between academic research institutions and commercial industry to achieve manufacturable, ruggedized outcomes