The contract supports next-generation GPS IIIF satellites through 2030

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The ‘unpriced change order’ supports satellite launches while officials reassess long-delayed ground system

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Space Force considers shifting to upgraded legacy ground system

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The OCX software upgrade was delivered July 1 by prime contractor Raytheon

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The Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) is a critical software upgrade for the Global Positioning System (GPS) infrastructure and is now more than eight years behind schedule.

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This latest award brings Raytheon's total OCX contract value to nearly $4.5 billion since the program's inception in 2010

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The head of the U.S. Space Force told lawmakers March 28 that the service is investing heavily in cybersecurity for satellite ground systems in response to increasing threats.

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Raytheon’s contract for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System, known as OCX, is increasing by $13.5 million due to pandemic-related costs.

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Raytheon received a $228 million contract to continue development of the OCX ground system for Global Positioning System satellites.

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Raytheon will remove the system’s IBM computers and install new Hewlett Packard Enterprise hardware.

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Until OCX is delivered, the Space Force will use the ground system known as Contingency Operations, or COps, made by Lockheed Martin.

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Raytheon says GAO never discussed its findings on the OCX program with the company. The watchdog agency disagrees.

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GAO predicts the OCX schedule will continue to slip. Raytheon: “The GAO findings are inaccurate.”

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The Air Force awarded a $462 million contract to Lockheed Martin to continue the modernization of the GPS ground control system.

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Building and launching spacecraft sometimes gets so much attention that the ground segment — user terminals, command and control systems and network operations —isn’t always ready even after a satellite is in space.

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Until OCX Block 1 is available, Lockheed Martin’s upgraded legacy ground system will be used to integrate GPS 3 satellites into the operational constellation.

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Following an acknowledgment of another deployment extension for the GPS 3 ground control network, the U.S. Air Force publicly and forcefully called on contractor Raytheon to put the program back on track.

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“We are very much enamoured with our system engineering processes in the Department,” said Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, the leader of Air Force Material Command.

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Raytheon’s long-embattled ground control system for GPS is back on track following a government contract breach last year that prompted the U.S. Air Force to work with the company to revise the program’s budget and schedule, the program manager said.

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The Pentagon gave the go-ahead to continue work on the troubled GPS ground system, saying that the restructured program is making progress on key milestones.

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Harris Corp. on Sept. 28 said it delivered the first of 34 modernized satellite receivers to Raytheon for the next-generation GPS ground system Raytheon is developing for the U.S. Air Force.

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