The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors, or PEO IEW&S, is conducting market research to guide its acquisition of assured positioning, navigation and timing services to warfighters.
What Is the Army’s MAPS GEN II Program?
The effort, called the Mounted Assured PNT System, or MAPS, Generation II, aims to ensure mission execution in areas where military code GPS is denied, according to a request for information posted on SAM.gov. Responses are due on Jan. 19.
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The Army intends to field MAPS across all units and operational domains to supplement PNT-reliant systems, which are ubiquitous across the military branch.
The selected contractor is expected to provide all labor, material, equipment, resources and facility for the requirement.
RTX subsidiary Collins Aerospace is the incumbent of the program. The company won a $583 million contract from the Army in 2022 to develop a PNT system for uncrewed and manned ground vehicles. More recently, the company received $44.6 million from the Army for engineering, production and maintenance support to MAPS Gen II.
Collins’ contract with the Army runs through September 2027.
What Are the Features of Collins’ MAPS II System?
Collins’ MAPS II system is equipped with NavHub-100, a navigation technology that generates and distributes APNT data to all systems, and Multi-Sensor Antenna System-100, which provides additional protection against jamming in GPS-challenged environments.
