{"id":70668,"date":"2016-06-29T23:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/gps-ocx-passes-new-test-milestone\/"},"modified":"2016-06-29T23:26:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:26:19","slug":"gps-ocx-passes-new-test-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/gps-ocx-passes-new-test-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS OCX Passes New Test Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-29-2016] <strong>Raytheon <\/strong>recently completed its \u201cRun For Record\u201d test of the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2018s Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) Black Wide Area Network (B-WAN), which provides network connectivity to unclassified external interfaces for GPS OCX. The company completed component-level testing, which included mission capability and cyber controls, with a 100 percent requirements pass rate.<\/p>\n<p>The B-WAN will be deployed as part of OCX Block 1 and Block 0, with the first use of B-WAN in 2017. OCX\u2019s development is delivered in \u201cblocks,\u201d with Block 0 comprising the launch and checkout system to take GPS 3 satellites into early orbit. The beleaguered program has experienced significant delays and cost overruns, but once complete is to enable a number of significant modernized capabilities for GPS users, including robust cybersecurity and deployment of jam-resistant, operational military code, or M-code. Block 1 builds on Block 0 to deliver the full OCX capability, which allows the Air Force to transition from its current GPS ground controls to the modernized GPS OCX. Block 2 delivers concurrently with Block 1 and includes GPS navigation warfare enhancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-29-2016] Raytheon recently completed its \u201cRun For Record\u201d test of the U.S. Air Force\u2018s Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) Black Wide Area Network (B-WAN), which provides network connectivity to unclassified external interfaces for GPS OCX. The company completed component-level testing, which included mission capability and cyber controls, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}