In 1996, the GPS IIF contract was awarded to The Boeing Company for the development and production of 33 space vehicles. In 2000, the Air Force modified the contract to increase satellite ...

The Space Force's R-GPS strategy emphasizes speed, evidenced in its plan to launch the first satellites within four years. In April, the Air Force announced it would use authority from Congress to ...

GPS III space vehicles will introduce new capabilities to meet higher demands of both military and civilian users. It brings the full capability to use M-Code in support of warfighter operations.

The Air Force is again holding its annual “Space Security Challenge” where they invite you to hack into a satellite to test their cybersecurity measures. There are actually two events.

Signals from the global navigation satellite system can be jammed and spoofed, so a Google spinout is working on an alternative positioning and navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field.

The seventh GPS III satellite from Lockheed Martin, the GPS III SX07, was placed into orbit at the end of 2024.

L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to develop design concepts for Phase 0 of the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program. This ...

Spearheaded by outgoing Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, the program aims to deploy smaller satellites with fewer payloads to supplement the traditional GPS satellites built by Lockheed Martin ...

A fight over a $300 million satellite task order has taken an unusual turn, with the Air Force filing its own protest after the Government Accountability Office ruled against the service branch.