The Open PNT Industry Alliance is a coalition of manufacturers and service providers that have dedicated themselves to helping their customers back up GPS/GNSS by delivering alternative forms of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT).

Core Principles

Building Resilience

The United States and other countries face a serious PNT resilience issue. True resilience requires the widest possible diversity, meaning that a singular sole-source technology will not only fail to meet the need in terms of reliability and performance but also be unable to evolve the optimal attack prevention and threat response capabilities.

Promoting Heterogeneity

The technological landscape is diverse enough to allow multiple alternatives to GPS/GNSS with varied operational characteristics to deliver against a complex and ever-expanding set of customer requirements.

Fostering Cooperation

National governments are in a position to set policy, define regulations, and enact legislation, but they may lack the technical expertise to effectively achieve their policy goals. The collective intellect of industry should be harnessed in a collaboration between the public sector and private sector to develop solutions at scale.

Avoiding Monopolies.

As governments consider frameworks for regulation and funding, they can best pursue national interest through a multi-technology approach to PNT resilience and establish a robust and self-sustaining funding framework that allows for the development and adoption of multiple sources of PNT that meet the needs of various sectors and industries.

Thinking Big

The ingenuity of the private sector, spurred by competition and public and private investment, will drive the emergence of multiple cost-effective GPS/GNSS alternatives that evolve according to technological innovations and market dynamics. Similarly, unbridled innovation will address new and still evolving use cases not supported by GPS/GNSS.

Developing Appropriate Financial Models

To recoup the cost of alternative PNT systems, the government should create a financing mechanism that is cost-neutral for critical infrastructure providers. These mechanisms will unlock the unbridled innovation and ingenuity of the private sector to address current and evolving use cases. The Alliance will work with Governments worldwide to establish a robust and long-term self-sustaining funding framework that allows for the broad deployment and sustenance of multiple sources of PNT.

Our aims are to:

1. Ensure that critical infrastructure owners and operators have the freedom to adopt commercially available alternative PNT solutions that best meet their operational needs at the earliest opportunity.

2. Make certain that national government requirements for GPS/GNSS backup are sufficiently broad to include a range of technological solutions.

3. Secure national government commitments to policies and funding for long-term sustainability of diverse PNT solutions.