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Pentagon To Move Forward On AEP Upgrades For GPS, As DoD Cancels GPS OCX

Pentagon To Move Forward On AEP Upgrades For GPS, As DoD Cancels GPS OCX
The GPS III-8 mission--the final GPS III satellite--launches on Apr. 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. (U.S. Space Force Photo)

The Pentagon has decided to end the GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) by RTX [RTX] and instead move forward on upgrades to the existing ground system for GPS, the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP). Lockheed Martin said last Thursday that it had received a $105 million AEP contract. In response to a Defense Daily question on Thursday just after the award on whether Space Force was cancelling GPS OCX, the service on Friday afternoon said that…

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