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L3Harris Technologies has handed over to Lockheed Martin a navigation payload for integration with a GPS III satellite the latter company is building for the U.S. Air Force.

Working as Lockheed Martin’s navigation signal partner for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III Follow On program, Harris has delivered a new navigation payload, which will enhance transmission power, for the military service’s new satellites.

Johnathon Caldwell, vice president of navigation systems at Lockheed Martin, told GPS World in an interview published Monday about the on-orbit performance of the first GPS III satellite the company built for the U.S. Air Force. “On Jan. 8 we began broadcasting navigation data across all signal chains, and the satellite has been in checkout mode since then,” Caldwell said of GPS III SV01, which launched in December.

Lockheed Martin awarded Harris a $243M contract to produce digital navigation payload for the U.S. Air Force's first two GPS III follow-on satellites.

Lockheed Martin transported the U.S. Air Force’s second GPS III space vehicle from a processing facility in Colorado to Cape Canaveral AF Base in Florida.

The first GPS III satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force took off Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 established communications with the defense contractor’s launch-and-checkout facility in Denver nearly two hours after launch, Lockheed said Sunday. …

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company is confident about its bid for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III follow-on program that seeks to build up to 22 GPS III satellites, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. “We think we’re performing well on the ones that we’re producing today and for this follow-on …

Lockheed Martin has delivered its proposal to the U.S. Air Force to compete for the service’s GPS III Follow On satellite development program. The company said Tuesday the GPS IIIF program aims to develop up to 22 next-generation GPS satellites designed to build up anti-jamming capabilities. Lockheed said its proposed GPS …