{"id":86115,"date":"2010-09-28T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/air-force-disputes-gaos-findings-that-gps-could-fall-behind-schedule\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:56:42","slug":"air-force-disputes-gaos-findings-that-gps-could-fall-behind-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/air-force-disputes-gaos-findings-that-gps-could-fall-behind-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Disputes GAO\u2019s Findings that GPS Could Fall Behind Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-28-10] <strong>The U.S. Government Accountability Office<\/strong> (GAO) questioned the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2018s ability to maintain a minimum number of healthy GPS satellites in orbit in a report released Sept. 27.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the report, the GAO speculated that <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong>, which was contracted by the Air Force to build future GPS 3 satellites, could fall behind schedule due to the Air Force\u2019s proposed 72-month timeline. According to the GAO, delays could jeopardize the Pentagon\u2019s plans to launch a number of GPS 3 satellites in quick succession, leaving the United States with fewer than the 24 orbiting satellites.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Air Force said the GAO\u2019s report was overly pessimistic. \u201cEven if the first GPS 3 satellite were to fall behind schedule by a year, it would not cause the GPS constellation to drop below 24 satellites, the minimum number required to ensure signal strength and accuracy. A delay of two years would have an impact, but such a delay is unlikely,\u201d Air Force officials said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The report also said the latest GPS satellite was nearly three-and-a-half-years late when it was launched in May. However, the Air Force said Lockheed Martin\u2019s GPS 3A program is now two months ahead of schedule following its completion of its critical design review Aug. 19.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThere\u2019s a tendency in the report to almost take too much from the past and apply that to what we\u2019re doing in the present and the future on GPS,\u201d the Air Force said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Boeing s GPS-2F Satellite Enters Service for the Air Force<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"14\" width=\"14\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/ico_bluekey.gif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tAugust 31, 2010<br \/>\n[08-31-10] GPS 2F-SV1, the  first of 12 Boeing-built U.S. Air Force Block 2F satellites, has entered  service, Boeing announced Aug. 30. The Air Force GPS Wing  transferred GPS 2F-SV1 satellite control authority to the Air\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ITT GPS 3 Payload Passes Air Force CDR<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tAugust 18, 2010<br \/>\nITT Corp. s GPS 3 navigation payload has  passed a U.S. Air Force critical design review for the Navigation  Payload Element (NPE) in support of the GPS-3 program, the company  announced July 26. The review was conducted June 24 at ITT s\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">GPS 3 Development Ahead of Schedule<\/b> \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 20, 2010<br \/>\n[04-20-10] Lockheed Martin is  ahead of development schedule for the U.S. Air Force\u2019s next-generation  GPS system, GPS 3, having completed 26 of 65 critical design review  (CDR) tests, the company announced April 29. Lockheed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-28-10] The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) questioned the U.S. Air Force\u2018s ability to maintain a minimum number of healthy GPS satellites in orbit in a report released Sept. 27. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the report, the GAO speculated that Lockheed Martin, which was contracted by the Air Force to build future GPS 3 satellites, could fall [&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-86115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86115"}],"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=86115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}