{"id":79088,"date":"2013-12-16T19:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-air-force-increases-gps-3-satellite-purchases-from-lockheed-martin\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T19:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T11:04:05","slug":"us-air-force-increases-gps-3-satellite-purchases-from-lockheed-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-air-force-increases-gps-3-satellite-purchases-from-lockheed-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Increases GPS 3 Satellite Purchases from Lockheed Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-16-13] The U.S. Air Force has awarded <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b> more than $200 million in contract options to complete production of its fifth and sixth next-generation Global Positioning System satellites, known as GPS 3.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a fixed price $120 million contract to procure long lead parts for a second set of four GPS 3 space vehicles (SV 05-08). This new award provides funding to complete the first two satellites (SV 05-06) in this order. Full production funding for the next two space vehicles (SV 07-08) is expected in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin is already under contract to produce four GPS 3 space vehicles (SV 01-04). The first two are currently on the production floor at Lockheed Martin\u2019s GPS 3 Processing Facility (GPF) in Denver, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>GPS 3 satellites will deliver three times better accuracy, provide up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities, and include enhancements which extend spacecraft life 25 percent further than the prior GPS block. It will be the first GPS satellite with a new L1C civil signal designed to make it interoperable with other international global navigation satellite systems.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin is the GPS 3 prime contractor with teammates <b>Exelis<\/b>, <b>General Dynamics<\/b>, <b>Infinity Systems Engineering<\/b>, <b>Honeywell<\/b>, <b>ATK<\/b> and other subcontractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-16-13] The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin more than $200 million in contract options to complete production of its fifth and sixth next-generation Global Positioning System satellites, known as GPS 3. In February, the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a fixed price $120 million contract to procure long lead parts for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75389,"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-79088","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\/79088"}],"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=79088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}