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Lockheed Martin has joined an organization that aims to promote awareness of global positioning system technology applications.

The U.S. Space Force has issued an operational acceptance certification for the second Lockheed Martin-developed GPS III satellite containing updates to its contingency controls.

Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $178M contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center and the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to provide technical engineering services to support the modernization of global positioning systems, the company announced on Friday.

Raytheon’s missile systems business has secured a $25.5M contract to provide critical design review of a military-grade signal used with a certain U.S. Navy missile system.

General Dynamics subsidiary GPS Source has opened a new engineering and manufacturing facility in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has issued a security certification for Raytheon-made global positioning system modules and receivers.

The Space Development Agency seeks industry input on the development and deployment of a new space defense architecture to support defense and communications goals.

Mercury Systems is offering 3D packaging, manufacturing and testing services to improve navigation technology that will support the development of smaller guided missiles.

Tracking software provider Teletrac Navman has received a provisional authority to operate for its fleet management platform under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted Teletrac Navman's Director platform a P-ATO, designating the product as a secure, third-party cloud solution that can be used by federal government agencies, the company said Wednesday.

CDM Smith has secured a potential $33M contract modification to provide utilities engineering and management services at Naval Facilities Engineering Command installations worldwide. The company will also provide utility master plans, modeling, life cycle and safety hazard analysis, relay coordination, design, documentation, process development, organizational evaluation, risk assessment, training as well as creation of preventive maintenance plans, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

A subsidiary of General Dynamics' mission systems business has announced the future opening of a new engineering and manufacturing site in Colorado Springs, Colo. GPS Source's new 18.5K-square-foot facility, set to open within the second quarter of 2019, will house over 100 employees, General Dynamics Mission Systems said Tuesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected Thales to build a facility at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for receiving and processing distress beacon signals from Global Navigation Satellite System satellites. Thales said Monday it will establish the Southwest USA Medium-Earth Orbit Local User Terminal to support NOAA’s Search …

A General Atomics business has added a provision to the navigation receiver of a baseline remotely piloted aircraft to support connections with the European Union and the European Space Agency’s Galileo satellite constellation. The baseline MQ-9B initially used a triplex navigation platform compatible with the U.S. global positioning system and …

Northrop Grumman‘s innovation systems sector, formerly called Orbital ATK, will evaluate the basic functions of global positioning system receivers for a medium-range tactical missile platform for the U.S. Navy under a $602,247 delivery order. The order falls under a basic ordering agreement and calls for the evaluation of Rockwell Collins‘ prototype NavStrike M-code GPS …

PreTalen will continue to develop an automated platform for analyzing wireless communication systems under a $23.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The company aims to incorporate a signals-based test framework into the Position Navigation and Time Autonomous Negotiator Applying Cognitive Effects-Based Analysis system, or PANACEA, the service branch said Thursday. USAF expects PreTalen to finish the …