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GPS OCX Program Says It’s Resolving Computer Deficiencies, Which Are Not ‘Substantial’ Risk to Performance

GPS OCX Program Says It’s Resolving Computer Deficiencies, Which Are Not ‘Substantial’ Risk to Performance
GPS OCX is to provide improved navigation accuracy, fly more than twice as many satellites and be secure from hacking. Pictured: is POGO-Charlie, a GPS ground antenna fielded in July, 2016 at Thule Air Base in Greenland. (U.S. Space Force Photo)

The Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) by Raytheon Technologies [RTX] has some critical hardware and software deficiencies and several hundred major and minor computer flaws, but the program said that it is resolving them, as it prepares to demonstrate GPS OCX features by the end of October. Raytheon has said that GPS OCX “will provide improved accuracy of the current system and will be able to fly more than twice as many satellites”–an increase that the…

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