Colorado Springs, Colo., USA - June 5, 2012 - The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is leading a U.S. industry team that includes Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] and Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force GPS Control Segment Sustainment (GCSS) contract. The control segment is the ground hardware and software that controls the space vehicles and their payloads. Teaming arrangement reflects best of GPS sustainment experience.
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702MP satellite
Boeing has been selected to build four 702MP satellites for Intelsat Ltd.
The contract marks the first order for the Boeing 702MP satellite, pictured here, which continues the technical and flight heritage of the Boeing 702HP family and enables Boeing to expand its product offerings to include flexible, modular satellites that operate in the 6- to 12-kilowatt power range.
These satellites will distribute video, network and voice services from Asia and Africa to the Americas and Europe.
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Colorado Springs, Colo., USA - June 5, 2012
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is leading a U.S. industry team that includes Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] and Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force GPS Control Segment Sustainment (GCSS) contract.
The control segment is the ground hardware and software that controls the space vehicles and their payloads.
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GPS IIF satellite
As the world becomes more dependent on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, protecting the satellite signal from jamming, computer hackers, errors and inaccuracies has become a matter of global security.
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The GCSS contract will extend the current GPS Operational Control Segment program until it transitions to the next-generation control segment, GPS OCX, which is currently being developed by Raytheon with support from Boeing.
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GPS IIF
Boeing has shipped the second GPS IIF satellite in preparation for launch this summer aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV vehicle.
The satellite, pictured here in from the company’s satellite integration and test complex in El Segundo, CA, was transported in a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
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The GPS OCX program will provide more secure, accurate, and precise satellite navigation around the world for military, humanitarian and commercial applications.
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
Raytheon is building the ground station for a new generation of satellites that will bring more safety and precision to GPS, affecting everything from the farms that grow our food to the warfighters that protect our freedoms to the aircraft that carry our loved ones home for the holidays.
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"This team brings together the best of industry in the current GPS sustainment effort and ensures a smooth transition to the next-generation system," said Sparky Olsen, director, Boeing Mission Operations.
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GPS modernization will be a catalyst for profound new business and economic applications, improving air traffic control, increasing crop yields, monitoring environmental trends and more, as it brings on significant capabilities.
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"The Boeing, Raytheon, and Harris team is a natural fit for the GCSS effort because it leverages our current working relationship with Boeing and ensures an absolutely seamless transition from the current system to OCX," said Ray Kolibaba, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems vice president and OCX program manager.
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The U.S. Air Force’s GPS III satellite program, the Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), and Military GPS User Equipment are the most reliable and affordable means to sustain and modernize GPS.
GPS modernization will be a catalyst for profound new business and economic applications, improving air traffic control, increasing crop yields, monitoring environmental trends and more, as it brings on significant capabilities.
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The U.S. Air Force's Ogden Air Logistics Center (ALC) in Ogden, Utah, also will join the GPS team under a new Public Private Partnership arrangement.
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The Global Positioning Systems Directorate is a joint service effort directed by the US Air Force and managed at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.
The directorate is the DoD acquisition office for developing and producing GPS satellites, ground systems and military user equipment.
GPS is a space-based radio-positioning system nominally consisting of a minimum of 24-satellite constellation that provides navigation and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
GPS satellites, in one of six medium earth orbits, circle the earth every 12 hours emitting continuous navigation signals. In addition to the satellites, the system consists of a worldwide satellite control network and GPS receiver units that acquire the satellite's signals and translate them into precise position and timing information.
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The ALC will be a critical partner supporting software sustainment at the Boeing Mission Operations Support Center (BMOSC) in Colorado Springs.
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Raytheon technicians conducting a simulation 'monitor' space debris as they test the company's space fence technology.
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The BMOSC reflects an investment of $35 million by Boeing and the Air Force over more than 10 years to create an enduring partnership that fosters development, testing, and fielding of both hardware and software solutions to support Air Force Space Command.
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A Raytheon technician performing a simulation 'tracks' space debris as the company tests its space fence technology.
The Air Force plans to deploy the technology, either from Raytheon or Lockheed Martin, by 2017.
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This partnership has continually achieved outstanding mission availability and mission assurance, delivering very high accuracy position, navigation, and timing signals to U.S. warfighters as well as to the global GPS user community.
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Imagine the World without GPS
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Other members of the Boeing-led GCSS team include CRGT, Infinity Systems Engineering, Boecore, Expert Methods Inc., a.i. Solutions, and RT Logic.
About Raytheon
Raytheon, with 2011 sales of $25 billion and 71,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world.
With a history of innovation spanning 90 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing, effects, and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services.
Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass.
For more about Raytheon, visit us at www.raytheon.com
and follow us on Twitter at @raytheon.
About Harris
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries.
Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and about 17,000 employees - including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists.
Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services.
Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at
www.harris.com
About Boeing Defense, Space & Security
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world's largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world's largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $32 billion business with 61,000 employees worldwide.
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Contact:
Lynn Farrow
Information Solutions
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Office: 703-414-6169
Mobile: 703-869-0463
lynn.farrow@boeing.com
Jared B. Adams
Raytheon Media Relations and Advocacy
Office: 571-250-2422
Mobile: 571-488-4231
jaredadams@raytheon.com
SOURCE: The Boeing Company
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/
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