Through the years, the Global Positioning System has become one of the most widely-used Air Force applications.
Today GPS is used in everything from farming and aviation to public safety and disaster relief and recreation, not to mention its military purpose of providing precision navigation and timing to our combat forces.
This dependence requires a keen focus on maintaining and modernizing the system. The Air Force took the next step in that process when it awarded a contract last month to Raytheon Company for the Next Generation GPS Control Segment, commonly referred to as OCX.
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