Niantic Spatial’s Visual Positioning System Assessed “Awardable” on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace

Niantic Spatial, a leading commercial dual-use provider of geospatial AI technology, announced that it has achieved “Awardable” status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace for its Visual Positioning System (VPS).

The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is the premier offering of Tradewinds, the Department of War (DoW’s) service designed to accelerate the procurement and adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, data, and analytics capabilities.

Achieving "Awardable" status means Niantic Spatial's VPS has been assessed through competitive procedures conforming to applicable federal acquisition requirements, and government agencies can directly engage, negotiate, and procure the technology.

Niantic Spatial’s VPS aligns live camera imagery with a persistent map to deliver real-time, full 6DoF position and orientation in mapped areas. It is designed to enable precise localization in mission-critical Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited environments, delivering a resilient positioning layer for systems that can’t afford to rely on GPS alone.

“Our Visual Positioning System is built for environments where positioning matters most - in dense urban areas, contested environments and where satellite signals can't reach reliably,” said Thomas Gewecke, President and Chief Operating Officer, Niantic Spatial. “We’re looking forward to ensuring that defense agencies can move quickly from evaluation to deployment.”

Traditional approaches to fixing GPS gaps relied on expensive, dedicated hardware or methods that fail under changing lighting, weather, or environmental conditions. Niantic Spatial VPS takes a different approach: redundancy and robustness through a flexible deep learning-based architecture complemented by real-time computer vision and on-device sensor fusion.

Niantic Spatial’s video, Niantic Spatial: Visual Positioning System - GPS-Independent 6DOF Localization for Multi-Domain Operations, accessible only by government customers on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, presents a number of use cases where VPS directly addresses capability gaps across several high-impact mission applications.

Niantic Spatial was recognized among a competitive field of applicants to the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace whose solutions demonstrated innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoW missions. Government customers interested in viewing the video solution can create a Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace account at tradewindAI.com.

About the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace: The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the Department of War’s (DoW) most significant challenges in the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), data, and analytics space. All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to Government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW’s Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Office. For more information or media requests, contact: Success@tradewindai.com