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GPS OCX Not Operationally Ready Until Next May, DoD Estimates

GPS OCX Not Operationally Ready Until Next May, DoD Estimates
U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. John Shaw, U.S. Space Command deputy commander, met with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and committee member, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), during their visit to Schriever Space Force Base on March 4 last year to discuss the command and the Joint Task Force-Space Defense. Space Force's Delta 8, which operates GPS, is also located at Schriever (U.S. Space Force Base)

U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) estimates that the Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) by RTX [RTX] will meet the system's Ready to Transition to Operations (RTO) milestone more than a year later than SSC projected last year, according to a DoD Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) released on Sept. 22. The SAR noted that the RTO, which SSC had expected in April, had moved to December and now May next year. "The Block 1 and…

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