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 ...
SpaceNews

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 ...
SpaceNews

Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is leading a U.S. industry team that includes Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] and Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force ...
C4ISRNET

Space Force sees further delays to ‘troubled’ GPS ground segment

The Next-Generation Operational Control Segment will support GPS III satellites, depicted above, as well as legacy GPS spacecraft. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force now expects ...
Defense One

Long-overdue GPS ground stations delayed by pandemic, Chinese hardware

Raytheon Technologies’ long-troubled ground stations that will control the Pentagon’s constellation of GPS satellites won’t be ready till next year—seven years behind schedule. The Space Force is ...