{"id":87419,"date":"2010-03-01T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/raytheon-awarded-886-million-gps-ocx-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:52:17","slug":"raytheon-awarded-886-million-gps-ocx-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/raytheon-awarded-886-million-gps-ocx-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon Awarded $886 Million GPS OCX Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">[03-01-10] <strong>Raytheon<\/strong> has won an $886 million contract with the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> to develop and improve the accuracy of information from GPS satellites, the company announced Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The contract represents the first two development blocks of the advanced control segment (OCX), which will include anti-jam capabilities and improved security, accuracy and reliability and will be based on a modern service-oriented architecture to integrate government and industry open-system standards. OCX aims to make it easier for operations teams to run the current GPS block 2 and all future GPS satellites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\t&#8220;The OCX concept was created to separate the control and space segments,&#8221; Raytheon GPS OCX Vice President Bob Canty said in a statement. &#8220;Technologies were evolving so rapidly and were so critical to execution that specialized skills were needed. The GPS wing saw the same need for specialized expertise on GPS OCX.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-01-10] Raytheon has won an $886 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to develop and improve the accuracy of information from GPS satellites, the company announced Feb. 26. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The contract represents the first two development blocks of the advanced control segment (OCX), which will include anti-jam capabilities and improved security, accuracy and reliability [&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-87419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87419"}],"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=87419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}