Exelis Wins Air Force Contract to Research Low-Cost GPS Alternatives
January 23, 2013
ITT Exelis has been awarded a $2.15 million contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to research […]
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ITT Exelis has been awarded a $2.15 million contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to research […]
The Boeing Company has completed the fifth of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft was built at the Satellite Development Center in El Segundo using the GPS IIF pulse-line manufacturing approach, which draws on commercial production line practices to build satellites faster and more efficiently.
The U.S. Air Force says defense contractor Lockheed Martin will lose its entire fee of about $70 million to defray an 18 percent cost overrun on the first of its newly designed GPS III satellites, the Washington Post reported.
Increasing availability and performance of state-of-the-art navigation sensors motivates the need for a highly accurate reference system commonly referred to as a time-space position information (TSPI) device. The Advanced Navigation Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology is working with the Air Force Flight Test Center to develop a next generation time-space position information (TSPI) system to be used for test and evaluation of modern navigation devices.
The first time I ever heard of the Magnavox Research Laboratory in Torrance, California, was in 1966, as a young engineer working at Hughes Aircraft. We were building large (46-foot diameter) ground stations for the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS). Magnavox was supplying the secret anti-jam modems used in the terminals.
Defense editor Don Jewell is a retired Air Force officer who served for 30 years; many of his former peers and contemporaries are currently senior officers in today’s U.S. Air Force. Don sat down recently with General C. Robert Kehler, Commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, whom he has known and worked with for more than 20 years, to discuss GPS from the four-star point of view.
LizardTech is partnering with Smartronix to enable the U.S. Air Force to access to imagery in support of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, reducing turnaround time from months to weeks.
The Air Force Space and Missiles Systems Center’s GPS Wing has announced a new contract to the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) team for systems engineering and integration (SE&I). Contract value is $217 million if all options and maximum award fee are exercised over the five-year contract period of performance.
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