The industry groups, which include a mix of defense firms and software development companies, will demonstrate their prototypes within the next 18 months.
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The year 2020 was definitely one for the history books. The global pandemic forever changed life as we know it, and in its midst, our GPS development and production teams launched us deep into a new era of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities.
COL. RYAN COLBURN
DIRECTOR, SPECTRUM WARFARE DIVISION; SPACE AND MISSILE SYSTEMS CENTER PORTFOLIO ARCHITECT
The list of capabilities delivered across Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) segments, in just one year, is of a volume not seen in decades. In short, we launched two and operationally accepted four new GPS III satellites, delivered two major upgrades to the ground command and control system, installed major upgrades across our monitoring stations, and checked off significant milestones in our user equipment certifications and end-to-end testing campaigns.