
The addition last month of an entrenched military GPS receiver product business by BAE Systems will provide the company with more than just leading products that helps build out its portfolio in precision strike, particularly in the “kill chain” of missile technology, it brings with it high volume production operations that the company expects to learn from and leverage, a BAE executive said last week. About two-thirds of the 700-employee military GPS business, which BAE is now calling Navigation and…