{"id":83366,"date":"2012-03-22T20:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-contracts-itt-exelis-to-build-gps-3-payloads\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T20:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:08:22","slug":"lockheed-martin-contracts-itt-exelis-to-build-gps-3-payloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-contracts-itt-exelis-to-build-gps-3-payloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Contracts ITT Exelis to Build GPS 3 Payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-22-12] <b>ITT Exelis<\/b> was awarded a $32 million contract by <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b> to build the navigation payloads for the third and fourth Global Positioning System 3 (GPS 3) space vehicles, the company announced March 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Exelis previously announced in December that it had integrated and performed the initial power up of the full-size payload prototype, which is also known as the GPS 3 Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST) Navigation Payload Element.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Exelis and Lockheed Martin were selected by the U.S. Air Force in 2008 to build the next-generation GPS 3 program. The U.S. Global Positioning Systems Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center leads the GPS 3 team.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The first GPS 3 satellites are scheduled for launch in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cExelis payloads have been onboard every GPS spacecraft \u2014&nbsp;a period spanning nearly 40 years,\u201d ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems Vice President and General Manager Mark Pisani said in a statement. \u201cTogether with Lockheed Martin, Exelis is committed to providing our warfighters and commercial and civilian users more accurate and reliable capabilities that improve interoperability and jam-resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-22-12] ITT Exelis was awarded a $32 million contract by Lockheed Martin to build the navigation payloads for the third and fourth Global Positioning System 3 (GPS 3) space vehicles, the company announced March 21. &nbsp; &nbsp;Exelis previously announced in December that it had integrated and performed the initial power up of the full-size payload [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-83366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83366"}],"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=83366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}