DOT Evaluated 11 GPS Replacements and Found Only One That Worked Across Use Cases
The Department of Transportation, under a congressional mandate added to the defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2018, ran a comprehensive evaluation of commercial alternatives to government-owned and operated GPS that could serve as a backup to our existing infrastructure.
Among the 11 companies considered in the study were a number of prominent positioning startups, including Satelles, which raised a $26 million round of capital in 2019; NextNav, which has raised a total of nearly $300 million, including $120 million from Fortress a year ago; and Hellen Systems, which according to Crunchbase raised a small seed round last year.
You can read the full report from the DOT, which runs to 457 pages and covers all 14 measures the researchers explored in evaluating these different PNT platforms.
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