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U.S. Space Force Expects GPS OCX Fielding Decision This Year

U.S. Space Force Expects GPS OCX Fielding Decision This Year
Last Dec. 16, U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and Space Operations Command executed a rapid National Security Space Launch of a Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite--SV-07-- aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Lockheed Martin Photo)

AURORA, Colo.--The U.S. Space Force expects Ready to Transition to Operations (RTO) and fielding decisions this year on RTX's [RTX] Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX). "What many people don't realize is that GPS OCX is much further along than most people are tracking," Col. Andrew Menschner, the commander of the U.S. Space Force's Space Operations Command, told a panel on positioning, navigation and timing at the Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium here. "OCX has…

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