Northrop Grumman partners with SandboxAQ to flight-test AQNav quantum navigation on Lumberjack drone

• Northrop Grumman partnered with SandboxAQ to integrate AQNav magnetic navigation software on the Lumberjack attritable Group 3 unmanned aircraft.
• Collaboration completed a flight test of MagNav on an attritable platform, pairing it with visual navigation for GPS-denied operations.
• AQNav uses passive magnetic sensing to provide continuous positioning without satellite signals, targeting resilience against jamming or spoofing.
• SandboxAQ positioned AQNav as hardware-agnostic software for rapid integration, citing installation on Lumberjack in under an hour.

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