Advanced Navigation, a global force in assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) for the world’s most extreme environments, announced the appointment of David Leniewski as Managing Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
After a year of triple-digit growth, Advanced Navigation is moving to own the European PNT market by ambitiously scaling its deep-tech operations to meet the surging demand.
The £1.4 Billion Problem Europe Can No Longer Ignore
Across Eastern Europe and the Middle East, GNSS jamming and spoofing are now a daily operational reality. IATA reported a 67% increase in jamming events from 2023 to 2025, while spoofing incidents rose by 193%. Autonomous systems are halting. Ships are being directed off course. Military assets are misdirected. A GNSS outage is estimated to cost the UK economy £1.4 billion every single day. The consequences are not technical footnotes – they are mission failures.
Speaking of the appointment, Advanced Navigation Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) Christopher McNamara believes Leniewski is the “right leader” for the “right moment”.
“The era of single-technology dependency is over. The question facing every defence program, every autonomous system integrator, and every critical infrastructure operator in the region is no longer if signal failure will affect them, but whether they will be ready when it does,” he said.
“With a track record of scaling dual-use technology across global markets, Leniewski brings a rare combination of operational credibility and commercial depth to the role. His time in the British Army gives him firsthand understanding of what resilient navigation means in contested environments – not as a systems specification, but as a lived experience. We are excited he’s joining us to translate that understanding into strong regional growth.”
