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Iridium makes its first PNT ASIC commercially available for assured navigation amid GNSS jamming/spoofing threats

Iridium says its first Positioning, Navigation and Timing Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PNT ASIC) is now broadly commercially available, with more than 150 organizations expressing interest. The chip is intended for hardware-level assured backup PNT capabilities as GNSS vulnerabilities to jamming and spoofing grow, including for avionics integration.

Discovered 2026-07-14T06:00:39.100341-07:00 | 2026-07-14T06:00:39.100341-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

Iridium’s hardware-level PNT ASIC targets GNSS jamming and spoofing vulnerabilities with assured backup positioning, navigation and timing—an increasingly operational risk for aircraft avionics.
Broad commercial availability signals the transition from R&D to deployable, integratable components for avionics makers, with >150 organizations already showing interest.
For PNT-dependent operations, the move raises near-term compliance and system-architecture questions around resilience requirements amid expanding GNSS threat activity, linking navigation assurance to aerospace cybersecurity.

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