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GPS OCX Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System

GPS OCX, the Next Generation Operational Control System, will dramatically enhance GPS command, control and mission capabilities and provide significant benefits to military and civilian users around the world.

Features and Benefits

n Control of GPS Block IIR, IIR-M, IIF and III satellites

n Control of all military and civilian signals

n Full information assurance certification to protect GPS against cyber attack

n Flexible, service-oriented architecture to support emerging military and civilian needs

n Simplified net-centric interfaces and Global Information Grid (GIG) connectivity

n Automation to reduce crew size and operation costs

n Timely clock and ephemeris updates

n Enhanced anti-jam and interference performance

n Increased situational awareness for GPS operators and mission planners

A Critical National Asset The U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) is a critical national asset with increasing global dependence. The position, navigation and timing (PNT) service offered through GPS ensures the safety and effectiveness of our nation's warfighters and is an integral component of global and national telecommunication, finance, commerce, energy, and transportation infrastructures. Reliance on the system is essential for both military and civilian users.

The U.S. warfighter leverages GPS to support air, land, sea and space missions ranging from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to precision strike and search and rescue. Additionally,

GPS is used by millions of people around the world to enhance daily life activities such as personal navigation, is required for business and industry needing precise timing, and is essential to support safety-of-life assurance for air traffic control systems and emergency responders. Existing performance limitations and the emergence of growing cyber threats drive the need for GPS modernization, including the new operational control system, to ensure continued access to this global utility.

The Next Generation In 2010 the U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon to develop the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) to improve the

accuracy and availability of GPS navigation signals and protect the system against current and emerging cyber threats. The contract represents the first two development blocks of OCX, which will have a significant impact on GPS capabilities. Raytheon is developing and installing new OCX hardware and software at the GPS Master Control Station at Schriever Air Force Base (AFB) in Colorado and the Alternate Master Control Station at Vandenberg AFB in California, advanced monitor stations at remote sites around the world, upgrading legacy ground antennas to improve cyber protection, and initial contractor support with sustainment options for five years.

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The new capabilities provided by OCX will revolutionize GPS command and control and will enhance mission management and mission data processing. OCX will shift the focus of GPS operations from satellite command and control to user-oriented, effects-based operations that will enhance GPS operational services to our nation's deployed forces, and civil and commercial users worldwide. Initially, OCX is focused on early fielding of a Launch and Checkout System (LCS) to support the launch of the first new GPS III spacecraft. LCS includes all information assurance controls and establishes the cyber-hardened infrastructure for the subsequent Block 1 and 2 deliveries. OCX is built on a flexible, service-oriented architecture that includes a robust infrastructure to meet requirements for new information assurance, integrity and net centricity needed to support future capabilities. OCX will be developed in an incremental fashion that will deliver capabilities to the field and the required growth and flexibility to meet military and civilian needs for the next 30 years.

Key Capabilities The key capabilities of GPS OCX include:

n Pathfinding information assurance to protect the system against cyber attack

n Improved availability of military accuracy in a jammed environment

n Increased time transfer accuracy

n Increased position accuracy

n Enhanced system integrity

n Backward compatibility

n Compatibility with Europe's Galileo (through new L1 signal)

n Secure, net-centric information sharing and interoperability with the global information grid

Future OCX capabilities include enhanced space launch support, increased situational awareness for GPS operators, and support for future satellite blocks with advanced capabilities such as new signals, navigation warfare (NAVWAR)capabilities, high-speed cross-links and additional payloads. OCX will provide easier access to

valuable system information for authorized users. In addition, improved user situational awareness of GPS performance and coordination capability with other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and space-based augmentation system providers will enable more precision capability for mission and user planning. Benefits to air traffic control include lower separation limits and higher traffic volume resulting in fewer air traffic delays.

OCX net-centric services will provide authorized users with more in-depth knowledge of system plans, performance and operations, enabling better decision-making and tighter performance tolerances.

It Takes a Team Raytheon selected an outstanding team of industry leaders with a unique balance of skills and experience to deliver GPS OCX. Raytheon's Airspace Management and Homeland Security business, which is leading the navigation integrity portion of the program, developed the Federal Aviation Administration's GPS Wide Area Augmentation System

(WASS), as well as international GPS augmentation systems such as Japan's MTSAT-based Satellite Augmentation System (MSAS) and India's GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation, system (GAGAN). Raytheon's teammates include Boeing, ITT, Braxton Technologies, Infinity Systems Engineering and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Raytheon's Commitment As the need for GPS capabilities becomes increasingly vital to military, civilian and commercial operations, Raytheon is poised to ensure the nation's GPS system works around the clock ? anywhere on and above the planet. Raytheon brings to OCX a solid history of successful time-certain delivery spanning more than four decades. This experience includes the deployment of more than 110 unique highavailability satellite ground systems to key government, civilian and commercial customers.

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