Company: NXNVW
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001213900-25-023287
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Company: NEXTNAV INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 Group (“Brattle”), an economic consulting firm, to calculate the economic value of a terrestrial PNT backup and complement to GPS. In its 2024 report, Brattle focused on two broad groups of benefits: (i) the value to specific segments of the economy; and (ii) the value to the military. Brattle estimated that a one-day global GPS outage could cost the American economy $1.6 billion, and NextNav’s terrestrial PNT proposal could prevent a loss of $663 million to the American economy. For a 30-day outage, the loss could be as large as $58.2 billion, and the NextNav proposal could prevent $31.9 billion of that loss. Given the probability of outage events, Brattle estimated the value to the American economy of the proposed terrestrial PNT approach to be $10.8 billion. Brattle found that the value of added resilience to the military is $3.8 billion, based on the military’s willingness to pay for GPS resilience and anti-jamming capabilities. According to Brattle, the total quantified value of a GPS backup is $14.6 billion.

Meanwhile, 5G NR technologies are also driving enhanced network performance, capacity, and efficiency across multiple industry verticals. 5G NR enables low-latency, high-throughput connectivity. The technology also improves spectral efficiency, which allows operators to increase returns on investment in licensed spectrum, and, in NextNav’s case, to improve both the density and availability of PNT signals. The technology can also support many different applications, including ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). These capabilities permit 5G NR to support high-performance broadband services as well as emerging use cases in autonomous systems, industrial automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT). 

Our Solutions

Our location systems have been engineered to provide comprehensive solutions to the limitations and vulnerabilities inherent in GPS and other satellite-based services. Key GPS limitations include:

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Low signal strength resulting in poor building/indoor penetration, limitations in urban areas;    

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Vulnerability to jamming;    

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Poor vertical accuracy in most devices, which impacts any service where altitude is relevant (e.g., multi-level structures, vertical separation in low-altitude aviation);    

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The primary consumer GPS signal is unencrypted, resulting in poor location security and spoofing;    

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Inherent physical vulnerability due to