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Harris, Part of Northrop Grumman Team, Submits Bid For GPS OCX

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Thursday, July 16th, 2009

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Harris [HRS] this week announced it submitted its proposal to provide advanced communications and information assurance solutions for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next-Generation Advanced Control Segment (OCX) as a member of the Northrop Grumman team. The proposal begins the downselect phase of the program. The open architecture, advanced control segment will support the entire constellation of current and future GPS satellites. The company's proposed communications architecture applies software-defined radio (SDR) technology to GPS monitor stations. This approach significantly reduces…

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