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Air Force To Finalize Acquisition Strategy For GPS Ground Control Segment This Year

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Monday, July 28th, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force will create a complete strategy for the acquisition of the three increments of its Next-Generation Global Positioning System Ground Control Segment (GPS-OCX) in the coming months, the program manager said last week. Lt. Col. Janet Grondin, the OCX program manager, said the strategy-including whether the Block I contractor will be carried over into future increments--is to be determined shortly. "We'll determine that by the end of the calendar year," Grondin told Defense Daily during…

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