The continuing delays in making the GPS jam-resistant M-Code signal available to military users “increase risk that U.S. and allied warfighters will be unable to conduct successful operations in future contested environments due to the lack of access to modernized GPS position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information,” the 2023 Annual Report of the Director of Operational Test & Evaluation finds.
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The Space Force has set contradictory requirements for the number of M-code capable GPS satellites, the Government Accountability Office found.
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“We know that the way of warfare has changed, and we’re going to be having difficulties with jamming, and having difficulties getting our position navigation and timing signals to our warfighters,” said AFRL Director Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle.
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Defense giant hopes other firms will adopt the open-source interface system allowing plug-and-play in orbit.
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The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.
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The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and Raytheon Intelligence & Space are enhancing mission management and mission-data processing to shift the focus of GPS operations from satellite command and control to basic, user-oriented effects-based operation.
By Barry Rosenberg “OCX and the user equipment piece do not come online until the third quarter of 2023; that is when we would expect to have our initial operational capability for the GPS enterprise across across all segments: space, ground and user equipment,” said Space and Missile Command’s Col. Ed Byrne.
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Once delivered and accepted, Space Force will own the OCX software-based ground system for GPS, not Raytheon.
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