Mercury Systems is offering 3D packaging, manufacturing and testing services to improve navigation technology that will support the development of smaller guided missiles.
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the first software-defined GPS receiver, which was designed for rapid GPS signal tracking, during a recently concluded test flight with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate.
The U.S. Air Force has granted security certification to a Collins Aerospace-developed navigation receiver technology with anti-spoofing and anti-jamming features. Collins Aerospace said Wednesday its Common GPS Module demonstrated compliance with the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's security design specification for hardware and software platforms.
Raytheon has begun the final phase of software development of a ground-based operational control system the company developed for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellites. The company said Tuesday the final software build phase for the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System aims to raise automation and building controls for the M-code military GPS signal […] More
The U.S. Air Force has conducted a military-code global positioning system test using a Raytheon receiver technology designed to facilitate connectivity between multiple vehicle platforms and the service branch’s GPS network. Raytheon said Tuesday its MAGR-2K-M receiver was tested onboard a B-2 Spirit bomber aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, California, as part of a government-led GPS modernization initiative. The effort aims to update […] More
Spirent Federal Systems and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop software that will work to support military code for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS constellation modernization effort. The partnership comes nearly three months after Spirent obtained approval from the service branch’s GPS directorate to develop M-Code support technology with the use of Modernized Navstar Security Algorithm, Spirent said Wednesday. Spirent […] More
Rockwell Collins has received a contract from Germany’s defense ministry to supply a technology that will offer Global Navigation Satellite System accessibility for the country’s military vehicles. The company said Tuesday it will install the NavHub system on multiple types of military vehicle in an effort to help German armed forces access navigation data. NavHub is designed to help military users receive […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a $45.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide military-code early use software for current and future global positioning system satellites. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s space systems business will develop the software for the service branch to task, monitor and signal M-code programs in space. DoD noted the […] More
Northrop Grumman has secured a $49 million contract to design hardware and software for the U.S. Air Force‘s next-generation integrated navigation system. The company said Tuesday it will design preliminary architecture under the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System-Modernization program. EGI-M will be equipped with M-Code-capable GPS receivers to support the transmission of military signals. Dean Ebert, […] More
NovAtel has received an order from the U.S. Naval Observatory for its anti-jamming antenna system in efforts to address the core controlled reception pattern antenna requirements of the Defense Department‘s main global enterprise network. The company said Monday its GPS Anti-Jam Technology will serve to support the DoD Information Network, which facilitates voice, data, video and bandwidth services. “GAJT has now been shipped and is […] More
Exelis has handed Raytheon six updated ground encryptors built for installation in the operational control system of the U.S. Air Force’s global positioning system. The encryptors are designed to help secure data transmitted between OCX and navigation payloads aboard the Air Force’s GPS satellites, Exelis said Wednesday. Joe Rambala, Exelis vice president and general manager […] More