New frontiers have opened up for line-of-sight communication, targeting, autonomous navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and more, with the astonishing advances in inertial technology. Quartz micro-electromechanical (MEMS) inertial sensors use a one-piece, micromachined inertial sensing element to measure angular rotational velocity. Fundamentally, these sensors produce signal output proportional to the rate of rotation sensed. A free webinar on July 21 explores the advantages of this technology, and those of closed-loop fiber optic gyros (FOGs): “Resetting the Bar on Inertial Sensor SWaP for Tactical and Navigation Applications.” Quartz MEMS have crashed past previous SWaP-c barriers in line-of-sight communication and targeting and autonomous navigation, where the key parameters are angle random walk (ARW) for gyros and velocity random walk (VRW) for accelerometers. They serve as the heart of a new generation of system solutions and offer the tools that make them an excellent choice for use by integrators and OEMs. The use of piezoelectric quartz material simplifies the sensing element, resulting in exceptional stability over temperature and time, and increases reliability and durability.