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Honeywell Launches New Alternative Navigation Software to Counter Jamming and Spoofing Threats

Honeywell Launches New Alternative Navigation Software to Counter Jamming and Spoofing Threats

  • Software enhances the performance of inertial navigation systems for crewed and uncrewed aircraft.

PHOENIX, October 13, 2025 – Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced the launch of its new Honeywell Alternative Navigation Architecture (HANA) — a software-based solution designed to ensure resilient navigation for crewed and uncrewed aircraft, as well as military surface vehicles, in environments where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are degraded, jammed or spoofed.

“Due to the proliferation of low-cost tools, the number of jamming, spoofing and blocking incidents is growing and is leaving more pilots and operators in the air without access to GNSS data,” said Matt Picchetti, vice president, Navigation and Sensors, Honeywell Aerospace Technologies. “HANA is our latest alternative navigation system designed to counter these threats by providing precise information on the aircraft’s position, velocity and orientation when GNSS signals are unavailable.”

HANA is a multi-system navigation platform that includes:

  • Vision-aided navigation: Using live camera feeds to match ground imagery with map databases.
  • Magnetic anomaly-aided navigation: Detecting known variations in Earth’s magnetic field.
  • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite navigation: Offering stronger, lower-altitude signals more resistant to jamming.
  • Other modalities: Including light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, radios and star trackers.

With this layered architecture, operators can mix and match modalities to meet mission-specific requirements, ensuring maximum resilience, system integrity and consistent availability even in GPS-denied environments. To ensure efficiency and ease of use, HANA can run on the operator’s current computing platform, or one that Honeywell provides.

The initial release of HANA includes vision-aided navigation, but Honeywell also plans to integrate magnetic anomaly and LEO satellite solutions into the platform in 2026.

HANA’s launch marks a major milestone in Honeywell’s five-decade legacy of inertial navigation system (INS) innovation, reinforcing its leadership in aerospace navigation and its commitment to mission-critical resilience for defense and commercial aviation.

 

About Honeywell

Products and services from Honeywell Aerospace Technologies are found on virtually every commercial, defense and space aircraft, and in many terrestrial systems. The Aerospace Technologies business unit builds aircraft engines, cockpit and cabin electronics, wireless connectivity systems, mechanical components, power systems, and more. Its hardware and software solutions create more fuel-efficient aircraft, more direct and on-time flights and safer skies and airports. For more information, visit aerospace.honeywell.com or follow Honeywell Aerospace Technologies on LinkedIn.

Honeywell is an integrated operating company serving a broad range of industries and geographies around the world. Our business is aligned with three powerful megatrends – automation, the future of aviation and energy transition – underpinned by our Honeywell Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Forge IoT platform. As a trusted partner, we help organizations solve the world’s toughest, most complex challenges, providing actionable solutions and innovations through our Aerospace Technologies, Industrial Automation, Building Automation and Energy and Sustainability Solutions business segments that help make the world smarter and safer, as well as more secure and sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.

Ahjay Rai
Global Communications Lead

Ahjay leads communications for Honeywell Aerospace across Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.

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