The Air Force is currently measuring the impact a two-year schedule slip to the next-generation Global Positioning System ground segment may have on the launch and early operations of the first GPS III satellites. The service announced in December that it would delay initial operations of the ground segment, GPS OCX, to July 2021 -- two years later than the schedule it had just re-baselined in late 2015, and nearly five years later than the program's initial operational target of...
