Pentagon eyes canceling ‘troubled’ GPS ground system

Amid persistent development and testing delays, the Space Force is considering canceling a program to develop a ground system to manage its newest GPS satellites, a spokesperson told Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Developed by RTX, the Next-Generation Operational Control Segment, GPS OCX, began a government-led testing phase last July, seemingly entering the home stretch after more than 15 years of effort to deliver a modernized GPS ground system. But a Space Force spokesperson said those tests revealed software defects that will require “substantially more time than planned to resolve.”

“Analysis indicates that the issues driving recent delays are in part a continuation of challenges the program has repeatedly been experiencing,” the spokesperson said in a March 27 email. 

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