Air Force: GPS OCX bridge capability nearly 40 percent complete

By Courtney Albon / August 18, 2017 at 7:00 AM
Lockheed Martin is making progress on a bridge capability that would allow the legacy GPS ground system to operate new GPS III satellites until the delayed Next-Generation Operational Control Segment is delivered. The company, which sustains the legacy GPS Operational Control Segment, is nearly 40 percent finished with the software coding required for the GPS Contingency Operations (COps) capability, according to Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Christine Guthrie. "Coding continues, along with early integration and test of the code," she told...

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