Pentagon tables Air Force request for OCX milestone decision authority

By Courtney Albon / January 23, 2019 at 1:01 PM
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord has opted not to immediately grant a request from the Air Force to assume milestone decision authority for the troubled Next-Generation GPS Operational Control Segment program, but will reevaluate the possibility later this year. In a Sept. 27, 2018 acquisition decision memorandum marked "for official use only," signed by Lord and obtained this week by Inside Defense , she approved milestone B for the restructured OCX program, which entered development in 2012. The program has...

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