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Air Force

Lockheed Martin Teams With Former Rival Northrop Grumman For GPS OCX Phase B Contract

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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has joined a team lead by Northrop Grumman [NOC] to compete for a follow-on Air Force contract for mission enterprise control support for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, Northrop Grumman announced yesterday. They plan to vie for the Air Force's GPS Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) Phase B effort, which will support existing GPS Block II satellites and the forthcoming Block III satellites starting next decade. The Phase B effort follows a current Phase A program under…

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