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“GPS OCX is one of the largest, most complex software development programs in the Department of Defense, and we’re now in the home stretch toward full system delivery,” said\u00a0Dave Wajsgras<\/span>, president of Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business.<\/p>\n The GPS OCX team completed development of 1.5 million lines of software code, supported by a pivot to leading-edge commercial software development processes that began in 2016. Additionally, the team’s information assurance best practices helped the program achieve\u00a0the highest level of cybersecurity protections of any DoD space system.<\/p>\n The U.S. Air Force used the cybersecure GPS OCX launch and checkout system, often referred to as Block 0, to launch the first modernized GPS III satellite into space in\u00a0December 2018<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the second in\u00a0August 2019<\/span><\/a>. The team’s focus for the remainder of 2019 is the delivery of the system’s new modernized receivers, which will measure and monitor legacy military and civilian signals sent by the current GPS satellite constellation plus the new signals sent by the next-generation GPS IIIs.<\/p>\n To learn more about the program’s progress and additional capabilities, visit us\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n