GPS OCX delivers advanced capability to support military users.
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[Via Satellite 10-03-2013] Raytheon has successfully completed software iteration 1.5 Critical Design Review (iCDR) for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX).

The iteration 1.5 software development provides the mission-critical Launch and Checkout System (LCS) software to support the first GPS 3 satellite launch and serves as the cyber-hardened baseline to which additional capabilities will be added to complete OCX Blocks 1 and 2.

“This successful CDR for GPS OCX’s Iteration 1.5 software is a major milestone and demonstrates that OCX is on track to support the first GPS 3 satellite launch and to deliver critical Block 1 and 2 capabilities,” said Matthew Gilligan, Raytheon’s GPS OCX program manager and a vice president with Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business. “Iteration 1.5 also provides the initial OCX baseline for key deployments and early site integration scheduled for early 2014 at Schriever and Vandenberg Air Force Bases.”