Tag Archives: GPS

The Department of Defense is looking for alternative platforms that could provide navigation and positioning data in GPS-denied environments and Leidos is one of the companies that could help meet the need, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

Johnathon Caldwell, vice president of navigation systems at Lockheed Martin’s space business, confirmed that the second GPS III satellite will continue on-orbit testing before joining the U.S. Air Force’s GPS constellation, GPS World reported Tuesday.

Raytheon has concluded the development of software and hardware components for a ground control system that will work to update global positioning system capacities in the U.S.

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.

Raytheon has performed the second demonstration of a land-based expeditionary variant of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System before a group of global military officials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.

A BAE Systems-built single board computer has been deployed and integrated into a GPS III satellite in line with the latter’s launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Thursday.

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.

A Lockheed Martin-built GPS navigation satellite has been attached onto the payload of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket slated to take off on July 25, Spaceflight Now reported Thursday.

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

Raytheon has received a potential $47.7M contract from the U.S. Air Force to conduct a preliminary design review of a next-generation integrated circuit to support the development and testing of GPS receivers for use in future military operations.

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

The Department of Homeland Security has posted a request for information on off-the-shelf technology platforms that employ a robotics architecture and could facilitate communications in border environments or missions. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday stated the DHS science and technology directorate is interested in systems that can function to identify underground structures, obtacles, contents and potential threats at the southern U.S. border.

The U.S. Air Force has received updated position, navigation and timing software from Lockheed Martin to help modernize the service's ground control system for GPS III satellites.

An L3 Technologies business received a $46.5M contract from the U.S. Air Force to build and test GPS receivers for future military missions.

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the first software-defined GPS receiver, which was designed for rapid GPS signal tracking, during a recently concluded test flight with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate.