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U.S. Space Force Looks to Qualify GPS OCX Software Baseline This Fall

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, June 17th, 2021

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U.S. Space Force Looks to Qualify GPS OCX Software Baseline This Fall

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV carrying the second GPS III satellite lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Aug. 22, 2019 (ULA Photo)

U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calif. expects the qualification of a new software baseline for the future command and control (C2) system for GPS satellites to come this fall. That C2 system is the $6.7 billion Raytheon Technologies [RTX] Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX). SMC said that OCX will not be operational until the third quarter of fiscal 2023 (Defense Daily, June 14). On June 17, SMC…

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