Advanced Navigation Secures $18.5 Million Deal for C-UAS Platforms with KONGSBERG
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 22, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Advanced Navigation, a global leader in assured positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), has secured a $18.5 million supply agreement with KONGSBERG for the integration of its Boreas Fiber-Optic Gyroscope (FOG) Inertial Navigation System (INS) into KONGSBERG’s PROTECTOR Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) platforms. This deal is part of a larger NOK 16 billion ($1.74 billion) contract to deliver PROTECTOR platforms to the Polish Armaments Agency, aimed at protecting Poland against evolving air threats.
The Boreas FOG INS will be used to provide precise positioning, orientation, and heading, ensuring that C-UAS stations can accurately detect, track, and engage air threats when GPS signals are jammed, spoofed, or unavailable. These platforms will be manufactured in Norway and will be delivered to Poland as part of the broader defense contract.
This collaboration builds on a previous multi-million dollar deal between the two companies, where Advanced Navigation provided its Boreas D90 FOG INS for integration into KONGSBERG’s PROTECTOR RS4 platform. The new agreement underscores the companies' commitment to addressing the challenges posed by modern conflicts, where economic and electronic asymmetries are key factors.
Modern conflicts have exposed two critical challenges for air defense. The first is economic: defending against thousands of low-cost attack drones with interceptors that cost millions of dollars per shot is unsustainable. The second is electromagnetic warfare, where GPS jamming and spoofing have become commonplace, degrading the effectiveness of defense systems that rely on satellite navigation.
Together, KONGSBERG and Advanced Navigation address both challenges. The PROTECTOR platforms deliver a low-cost-per-engagement C-UAS capability, while the Boreas FOG INS ensures the platform continues operating when satellite navigation can no longer be trusted. By providing a resilient source of positioning, orientation, and stabilization independent of satellite navigation, Boreas enables PROTECTOR to maintain accurate sensor alignment and target engagement under conditions that would degrade conventional navigation systems.
David Leniewski, head of EMEA at Advanced Navigation, emphasized the importance of GPS-denied navigation for air defense.
The PROTECTOR platforms, equipped with Advanced Navigation technology, are already deployed across various military vehicles, including infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, naval vessels, and uncrewed ground vehicles. The integration of Boreas FOG INS into these platforms ensures that they can operate reliably in GPS-denied environments, providing a resilient capability that continues to function even when the battlespace is actively trying to deny it.
Jørgen Andreas Bull, senior vice president of land systems at KONGSBERG, highlighted the importance of this partnership.
This agreement, supported by the Australian Department of Defence’s Global Supply Chain (GSC) Program, demonstrates how deep-tech disrupters can integrate into international defense manufacturing networks. The streamlined production capabilities of Advanced Navigation, which enable full internal component sourcing, environmental stress-testing, and simulated electronic warfare validation, ensure rapid, high-volume production and delivery timelines.