A terrestrial positioning system — resilient, ground-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) designed to keep vehicles, systems, and infrastructure located and synchronized when satellite signals are jammed, spoofed, or unavailable.
Modern navigation runs on satellite signals that are faint by the time they reach a receiver — and increasingly easy to jam or spoof. In active theaters, GPS denial is now routine; for critical infrastructure, satellite timing is a single point of failure.
Merlin TPS approaches the problem from the ground up: terrestrial infrastructure delivering positioning and timing independently of satellites, built for environments where resilience is the requirement rather than a feature.
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Positioning, navigation, and timing underpin defense platforms, autonomous systems, aviation, shipping, and financial and power infrastructure. When satellite signals degrade — through interference, jamming, or spoofing — the systems that depend on them degrade with it.
Merlin TPS develops terrestrial positioning technology that operates independently of GNSS constellations, providing an alternative source of position and timing that remains available in contested and denied environments.
Relevant wherever assured PNT matters: defense and autonomous platforms operating under electronic attack, and civil infrastructure — timing, logistics, aviation, and maritime — that needs a backup to satellite dependence.
Merlin TPS is led by CEO Christian Kotscher with co-founder and President Christopher Kocks.
Merlin TPS was ZAMP’s first venture position, backed early through its first special purpose vehicle (SPV1). Assured positioning sits squarely inside ZAMP’s defense thesis: infrastructure the next decade of autonomy will depend on.
Company information on this page is based on statements by Merlin TPS and public sources and has not been independently verified by ZAMP.
