Air Force: GPS OCX contingency capability delayed due to development challenges

By Courtney Albon / December 19, 2018 at 2:10 PM
(Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect new information provided by the Air Force.) The Air Force confirmed this week Lockheed Martin is expected to be several months behind on delivering a key upgrade to the legacy GPS Operational Control Segment -- a modification that was designed to mitigate the impact of delays to the Next-Generation Operational Control Segment. The GPS Contingency Operations capability was slated for delivery in early December , but that delivery date has...

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