After 16 years and $8 billion, the military’s new GPS software still doesn’t work

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military’s most ...
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Pentagon weighing termination of Raytheon GPS ground control contract after years of delays

The Pentagon is expected to terminate or sharply reduce work on a long-delayed GPS ground control program built by RTX, as officials grapple with persistent technical issues more than a decade into ...
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Lockheed Martin wins $105 million contract for GPS ground control system as OCX winds down

The U.S. Space Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $105 million contract to support ground control operations for the next ...
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U.S. Space Force’s GPS Ground System Faces Uncertain Future

The U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Operational Control System—also known as GPS OCX—was established in 2010 when the Air Force selected Raytheon (now RTX) to develop a modernized ground control ...