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Military GPS User Equipment Modernization To Begin With Rollout of Prototype Cards Next Year

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

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The Air Force is shifting its approach to GPS user equipment procurement from purchasing end-items to instead buying "chip sets" that can be installed on various platforms, a top space official recently. "They will be available as a commodity for platform developers to order with procurement dollars," Maj. Gen. William McCasland, director of space acquisition in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Air Force, said at a June 18 breakfast in Washington sponsored by Government Executive magazine. The…

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