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Air Force Nears Final RFP For GPS III Follow-On Production

By Marc Selinger

Monday, November 27th, 2017

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Air Force Nears Final RFP For GPS III Follow-On Production

Technicians work on the the U.S. Air Force’s third GPS III satellite. (Credit: Lockheed Martin)

The final request for proposals for building the next batch of Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites will be released on or near Dec. 7, the U.S. Air Force announced last week.The Air Force had previously indicated that it would issue the final RFP for “follow-on production” sometime in the current quarter. The service released the draft RFP in July (Defense Daily, July 21).While Lockheed Martin [LMT] is building the initial 10 GPS III satellites, the program has experienced cost…

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