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Eric Brown, senior director of military space mission strategy at Lockheed Martin, said the company is updating its satellite bus for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III follow-on satellite platform to facilitate hardware updates in orbit, SpaceNews reported Friday.

Pramod Raheja, chief executive officer and co-founder of Airgility, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company's solutions, such as aerial unmanned systems and Sensing & Navigation capabilities, and how Airgility leverages emerging technologies to further support their customers' most critical missions. Raheja also discussed where the company will continue to grow, moving into 2021. 

Raytheon Technologies is developing receivers planned to provide an alternative navigation system to GPS that integrates sensors and signals through concepts such as machine learning.

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has handed over to the U.S. Air Force the 3,000th production unit of a GPS receiver built to help warfighters prevent jamming and interference while navigating the battlefield.

The U.S. Air Force seeks market information on potential GPS receivers for the Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile. The service branch said Monday in a SAM notice it needs to develop a strategy for the procurement of an M-code GPS receiver under the JASSM program.

Robert Cardillo, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has said the government must encourage the private sector to implement alternative positioning, navigation and timing systems.

NASA has tapped Spirent Communications' federal systems business to test global navigation satellite system receivers in support of an upcoming lunar exploration mission.

The latest Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite for the U.S. Space Force has detached from SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle and is cruising toward its intended orbit using the spacecraft's own propulsion system.

SpaceX plans to push through with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a new military GPS satellite after addressing the technical issue that caused liftoff delays, Cnet reported Monday. The company said GPS III Space Vehicle 04's launch can resume on Thursday at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Kevin Coggins, vice president for positioning, navigation and timing at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said that an internationally protected backup communications infrastructure can help ensure continued operations across the U.S. amid GPS outages.

BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary became the sixth member company of the GPS Innovation Alliance, which aims to promote the adoption of global positioning systems and secure the technology.

Orolia Defense and Security has secured a $1.7M contract to supply multiple simulators for U.S. military personnel to test GPS receivers designed to integrate with positioning, navigation and timing equipment.

The U.S. Navy has received the first production unit of a system Raytheon Technologies built to help military personnel land aircraft onto a carrier or an amphibious assault vessel.

The U.S. Air Force's 2nd Space Operations Squadron plans to work with Aerospace Corp. and Lockheed Martin for satellite maneuver operations after performing its first orbital station-keeping of a GPS III satellite last month.

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