{"id":25648,"date":"2019-01-29T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/29\/army-wants-navigation-by-quantum-physics-in-the-2050s\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:19:52","slug":"army-wants-navigation-by-quantum-physics-in-the-2050s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2019\/01\/29\/army-wants-navigation-by-quantum-physics-in-the-2050s\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Army harness the inertia to transform navigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is ready to move into the future. Key to this vision is Futures Command, complete with a four-star general to oversee modernization and a promised technology-forward approach for fighting the wars of today, tomorrow and, hopefully, not yesterday. To that end, the Government Accountability Office published a report on Army modernization to ensure Futures Command is being all it can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/700\/696537.pdf\" target=_blank>covered in the report<\/a> are near-future projects. These include a next-generation squad automatic rifle, targeted for 2022, and a next-generation combat vehicle, aimed at 2026. From 2028 to 2050 there\u2019s a long gap, with the middle of this century as the expected timeline for quantum assured positioning and navigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ll get to the quantum aspect in a second. Assured positioning and navigation is part of the broader goals for an Army network. As stated in the GAO report, the network will be \u201ca mobile system of hardware, software and infrastructure that can be used to fight cohesively in any environment where the electromagnetic spectrum is denied or degraded.\u201d Right now, denied environments are a consideration, but not the dominant landscape of war (excepting, of course, the fighting done in passively denied environments, where mountains or other obstacles interfere with radio and other signals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Makings tools that can communicate when signals are gone \u2014 like a possible destruction of the GPS network \u2014 or simply denied \u2014 through the kinds of strong electromagnetic interference we\u2019ve seen fielded by nations like Russia \u2014 is an important way to making sure that Army doctrine, tactics and communications created in an era of permissive electromagnetic spectrum can be adapted to the future. (This is also part of the push for autonomous systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/electronic-warfare\/2018\/11\/15\/to-understand-autonomous-weapons-think-about-electronic-warfare\/\" target=_blank>including weapon systems<\/a>, that can operate in denied environments.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quantum assured positioning and navigation is one distant aim of a whole family of new navigational tools. Most navigation sensors use a combination of inertial sensors and checks against an outside location system; think of a cellphone\u2019s accelerometer and GPS reception when giving driving instructions. Most of the time, the data from the sensors match the route anticipated from the last checkpoint, but not always. The better the inertial sensor, the less frequently a navigation tool needs to check with an external source to know where it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With data back to at least 2014, DARPA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2014-07-24\" target=_blank>Beyond GPS projects<\/a> include a tool that seeks to use \u201cquantum physical properties to create extremely accurate inertial measurement devices\u201d to enable navigation tools to operate for a long time without external confirmation of location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That the GAO and the Army don\u2019t expect to see quantum assured positioning and navigation until 2050 suggests that the technology is not quite within reach, but that it will be available within a little more than 30 years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNext-generation combat vehicle\u201d may be catchy branding; \u201cNext-generation navigation system\u201d might be the literal truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may take till 2050, but the Army wants quantum physics to power navigation that requires fewer signals, which means more stability in denied environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,106,29,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3021],"class_list":["post-25648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c2-comms","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"LQSQDVEWRJF7PAAALAGYR5PVW4","arc_canonical_url":"\/c2-comms\/2019\/01\/29\/army-wants-navigation-by-quantum-physics-in-the-2050s\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can the Army harness the inertia to transform navigation? - C4ISRNet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It may take till 2050, but the Army wants quantum physics to power navigation that requires fewer signals, which means more stability in denied environments.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2019\/01\/29\/army-wants-navigation-by-quantum-physics-in-the-2050s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can the Army harness the inertia to transform navigation?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It may take till 2050, but the Army wants quantum physics to power navigation that requires fewer signals, which means more stability in denied environments.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2019\/01\/29\/army-wants-navigation-by-quantum-physics-in-the-2050s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C4ISRNet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-29T18:28:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T18:19:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kelsey D. 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