How a Silicon Valley Startup Is Quietly Redefining Navigation

What happens when GPS fails — not just flickers, but is jammed, spoofed, or vanishes entirely?

For most systems, the answer is: you’re lost. But for Mario Paniccia, it was a challenge worth solving.

After a long career at Intel pioneering silicon photonics, Paniccia turned his attention to navigation, co-founding ANELLO Photonics to build a new kind of inertial sensor. One that packs the precision of high-end gyroscopes into a chip the size of a coin.

In this episode of Defense Disruptors, we speak with Paniccia about how the technology works, how it's already being used in jammed war zones, and why he believes the GPS-free future is already here.

Read the full episode on NextGen Defense: Defense Disruptors: How ANELLO Rethinks Navigation in a GPS-Denied World