The U.S. Air Force's Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) has recently released publicly-available draft versions of updated GPS Interface Control Documents. The documents specifically address the use of forthcoming new civilian signals.

Lockheed Martin has joined Northrop Grumman Corp.'s team competing for the U.S. Air Force's (USAF) GPS Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) Phase B contract.

Raytheon Co. has won a $61 million U.S. Air Force contract from the GPS Wing to complete the development and certification of next-generation GPS receivers.

BAE Systems has developed a satellite navigation receiver system that provides uninterrupted GPS signal reception for air, land, and sea platforms and applications, the company said today.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has completed satellite integration and environmental testing for GeoEye's next-generation earth imaging satellite, GeoEye-1.

GPS can be used for more than terrestrial navigation, as the European Space Agency's (ESA) unmanned automatic transfer vehicle, Jules Verne, is proving

Raytheon Co. has completed the system requirements review (SRR) for the U.S. Air Force for the next-generation GPS Control Segment (OCX), the company said today.

Alliant TechSystems, Inc. (ATK) has selected L-3 Interstate Electronics Corp.'s TruTrak Evolution (TTE) GPS receiver for its guidance system used in the U.S. Army's Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) program.

KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. soldiers successfully fired the first 155 millimeter GPS-guided Excalibur artillery round here on February 25, according to the U.S. Army.