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Assured PNT Summit

  • April 23-24, 2025
  • National Housing Center, Washington, DC

EVENT OVERVIEW

The 5th Annual APNT Summit will convene the relevant subject matter experts and solution providers from the DoD, federal government, academia, and industry to discuss strategies, policies, and technologies that are needed to boost resiliency and assure PNT services. The Summit will advance the development and integration of a robust, resilient PNT enterprise across the United States to support critical operations and national security.

Confirmed Speakers Include

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Agenda current as of 4.21.25

  • Admiral Christopher Grady, USN

    Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Keynote Speaker

  • General Michael Guetlein, USSF

    Vice Chief of Space Operations US Space Force Keynote Speaker

  • Dr. Bradford Parkinson, Col USAF (Ret)

    Emeritus Professor, Stanford University, Chief Architect, GPS

  • Mitch Crosswait, PhD, SES

    Acting Principal Deputy Director, DOT&E

  • Cordell DeLaPena, SES

    PEO for Military Communications and PNT, Space Systems Command

  • COL Alexander Rasmussen, USA

    Chief Capabilities Officer, Space Development Agency

  • CAPT Timothy Knapp, USN

    PNT Branch Head & Deputy Navigator of the Navy OPNAV N2N6

  • Amy Dykstra

    Principal Investigator, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

About the Assured PNT Summit

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

  • Coordinating PNT Policies and Directives to Align with the DoD’s Strategic Goals
  • Testing Operational Effectiveness & Suitability of PNT Systems to Maintain National Security
  • Preparing for Great Power Competition by Improving Space Resiliency and Innovation
  • Army Priorities for Developing & Fielding Resilient PNT Capabilities
  • Going Beyond Space: Adding Resiliency into Our National PNT Infrastructure
  • Innovations and Advancements in Anti-Jamming, Spoofing, and Cybersecurity for PNT Solutions

Access to positioning, navigation, and timing services is key to ensuring the proper functioning of military operations and weapons systems as well as civilian critical infrastructures across industries such as transportation, banking, and emergency services.  A loss of PNT services would result in billions of dollars of loss and pose a significant national security risk.  To support the integration of robust, resilient PNT services across the United States, the 5th Annual Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) Summit will bring together members of the military services, DoD, federal government, industry, and academia in a town-hall style forum.

Join us at the 2025 APNT Summit to learn how to assure the availability, security, and resiliency of PNT sources for military, civil, and commercial users.  While adversaries have advanced their PNT enterprises to be resilient and robust, the United States remains dependent upon a vulnerable GPS system.  Further, adversaries continue to spoof, jam, or deny our access to PNT services.  This generates a strong imperative to strengthen GPS security and integrate alternative and complementary PNT sources for sustained resiliency.  Speakers at the 5th Annual APNT Summit will highlight the need to implement the Protect, Toughen, and Augment (PTA) principle, promote anti-jam and spoofing capabilities and invest in alternative and complementary technologies to create a resilient PNT enterprise.  Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with leaders across the community to learn how the DoD and federal government are accelerating PNT innovation to ensure accurate, secure time and location data.

DSI’s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Symposiums’ content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in PNT and GPS as well as key-policy makers across military and civilian offices. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all services and organizations to bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers.

Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing our PNT communities.

Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to engage in constructive dialogue among all in attendance.

Influence: Help foster ideas. Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments or ideas.

DSI’s Summit directly supports DoD priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department’s mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.

DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.

This Summit is open and complimentary to all DoD and Federal employees and is considered an educational and training forum. (Industry and academia members are charged a fee for admission.)

Summit is CLOSED TO PRESS / NO RECORDINGS

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The 5th Annual Assured PNT Summit provides opportunities including exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, and networking receptions. Download the Sponsorship and Exhibiting Prospectus Here.

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