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Lockheed Martin Completes Upgrade To Modernize GPS Ground Control System

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

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Lockheed Martin Completes Upgrade To Modernize GPS Ground Control System

Artist's illustration of a GPS III satellite. Image: Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin [LMT] completed a major upgrade to modernize the Air Force’s Global Position System (GPS) ground control system, the Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Upgrade #2 (CUP2) project, the company said Thursday.The CUP2 project is the newest step in the Air Force’s multi-year plan to refresh technology and transform the legacy Operational Control Segment into a modern command and control system, called the Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP).CUP2 became fully operational on Oct. 15 and began managing the 31 GPS IIR, IIR0M…

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