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Army Approves Collins Aerospace’s MAPS Gen II For Full-Rate Production

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, March 6th, 2025

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Army Approves Collins Aerospace’s MAPS Gen II For Full-Rate Production

MAPS Gen. II. Photo: Collins Aerospace.

The Army has approved moving the newest version of the Mounted Assured Positioning Navigation Timing System (MAPS) capability, built by Collins Aerospace [RTX], into full-rate production. The update coincides with continuing to field the MAPS GEN II anti-spoofing and anti-jamming capability and nearing an initial operational capability milestone, with Collins Aerospace confirming to Defense Daily it has delivered more than a thousand units to the Army so far. “Through close coordination with our customer, we’ve met the modernized fielding requirements…

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