Assured PNT Summit 2025

Bolstering PNT Resiliency to Enable Mission-Critical Operations

April 23-24, 2025 - Washington, DC, United States

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.

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

Why You Should Attend This Summit

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.

The 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.

At Our Summit You Have the Ability To

  • 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.

Sponsors & Exhibitors

The 5th Annual Assured PNT Summit provides opportunities including exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, and networking receptions.
Contact us for sponsorship information

Early Confirmed Speakers Included

  • Admiral Christopher Grady, USN, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Mitch Crosswait, PhD, SES, Deputy Director, Net-centric, Space and Missile Defense Systems, Operational Test & Evaluation
  • Cordell DeLaPena, SES, PEO for Military Communications and PNT, Space Systems Command
  • Harold Martin, SES, Director, National Coordination Office (NCO) for Space-Based PNT
  • CAPT Kris De Soto, USN, PM, Navy Communications and GPS Navigation Program Office, PMW/A 170
  • CAPT Margaret Kennedy, USCG, Commander, Coast Guard Navigation Center
  • Michael Trzeciak, Project Manager, PNT, U.S. Army
  • Col Matthew Garvin, USAF, PhD, Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

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Venue

National Housing Center
1201 15th St NW, 20005
Washington, DC, USA

Parking Details
Parking details will be provided to registrants one week before the event in the “Event Logistics” e-mail.

Nearby Hotels
Hotel rooms are available at a discounted rate, available 60 days before the event begins. The registration fee will include a light breakfast, full lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments, access to all networking receptions, and WiFi.

Canopy by Hilton Washington DC Embassy Row
1600 Rhode Island Avenue NW Washington DC, District of Columbia 20036 USA

The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center
1400 M Street NW, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA, 20005

Washington Plaza Hotel
10 Thomas Circle NW, Washington, DC 20005