US Develops ‘Mother of All Motion Sensors’ to Counter GPS Jamming in War Zones

And it might show up in Ukraine sooner than you think.

As a former journalist, I still get press releases regularly sent to my inbox — my email address is doomed forever to exist on distribution lists at Muck Rack and Cision.

But I don’t mind. It gives me a quick read every morning on topics that I find interesting — especially on the global security beat — directly from the source.

Last month, I got a news release from Sandia Labs in New Mexico that made my ears perk up.

Sandia Labs is owned by the US government and is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. But it’s managed by a subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc. — a longtime US defense contractor.

Now, scientists at Sandia National Laboratories created a motion sensor so precise that it could greatly reduce reliance on GPS. As you might imagine, this could have big implications for numerous industries — especially defense.

In a major leap forward, scientists at Sandia have created a next-gen quantum motion sensor designed to operate without GPS. Dubbed “the mother of all motion sensors,” this device could drastically reduce the US’s reliance on GPS in combat zones where signals are often jammed or spoofed by enemy forces.