$583 Million Over Five Years
Collins Aerospace has been awarded a five-year IDIQ contract, valued at $583 million, for production of the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation & Timing System Generation II (MAPS) for both crewed and unmanned ground vehicles.
Providing users with measurable advantage, MAPS Gen II consists of Collins’ NavHub-100 navigation system and Multi-Sensor Antenna System (MSAS-100), and brings the highest level of protection against the most severe and evolving PNT threats to support multi-domain operations and mitigate existing and evolving threats.
MAPS Gen II counters peer and near-peer threats by providing a high-assurance, high-integrity, accurate navigation solution using NavFusion technology, which fuses data from multiple sensors, along with M-code GPS with advanced anti-jamming and anti-spoofing technology. The system’s Modular Open-System Architecture supports maintaining these advantages via technology insertions driven by feedback from user and system integration teams across DoD. Additionally, the architecture lets the US Army add new sensors and capability with a much lower life-cycle cost, such as external inertial measurement units, line of bearing, alternative RF, video feeds, and dismounted C2. The system is interoperable with the Collins Aerospace PRC-162 manpack radio to ensure mission success in the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) battlespace.
“Real world testing in the competitive phase of the MAPS program has proven that the MAPS Gen II system raises the bar for Assured PNT performance when GPS is challenged or denied,” said Ryan Bunge, VP/GM for Communication, Navigation and Guidance for Collins Aerospace. “Collins’ long history in guidance and navigation has helped us bring MAPS Gen II into production as quickly as possible, and our world-class manufacturing capability will continue providing America’s warfighters with the best protection available.”
