The Global Positioning Systems Directorate achieved major milestones in developing and deploying modernized GPS capabilities, Dec. 17. Col. Bernard Gruber, GPS program director at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, led his team through the second Annual GPS Enterprise Review, a Defense Acquisition Board review chaired by deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and attended by other senior Department of Defense officials.
The purpose of the AGER is to eliminate individual DAB reviews for the various GPS satellite, ground station and user equipment programs, thus streamlining the acquisition decision process. This year, the AGER focused on major acquisition milestones for each of the GPS Enterprise’s three segments – Milestone C for the GPS Block IIIA space vehicle program, Milestone B for the Next-Generation Operational Control Segment program and Milestone A for the Modernized GPS User Equipment program.
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