PALADIN&T: Platform for Acquisition, Logging, and Analysis of Devices for Inertial Navigation and Timing

PALADIN&T 

The ultimate goal of the Platform for Acquisition, Logging, and Analysis of Devices for Inertial Navigation and Timing (PALADIN&T) initiative is the development of a universal testing platform to allow rapid, uniform early-stage Test and Evaluation (T&E) of prototypes for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) tasks. Currently, the T&E of PNT prototypes is very much a boutique process, where a customized setup (i.e. mechanical mounting, the electrical interfaces, etc.) is built for each individual device. The ad hoc nature of this approach requires significant time, effort, and resources and can introduce non-uniformities in the measurements due to subtle differences in the implementation of the interfaces. A PALADIN&T system, on the other hand, will shift T&E from the "one-off" paradigm to more of a "plug and test" implementation resulting in more uniform measurements and reduced setup costs.