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February 27th, 2010, 00:05
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Don't count on your navigation unit seeing a sudden improvement anytime soon, but Raytheon (http://www.engadget.com/tag/raytheon) has announced that it's landed an massive $886 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a new element of GPS called the advanced control segment (or OCX, somehow). Once complete, that promises to not only provide a range of ehancements for military GPS use (including anti-jam capabilities and improved security), but improved accuracy and reliability for civil GPS users as well. Details are otherwise a bit light, and this contract only represents the first of two development blocks, but it looks like GLONASS (http://www.engadget.com/tag/glonass) and Galileo (http://www.engadget.com/tag/galileo) may have to step up their game a bit further if they want to stay competitive in the great sat-nav race.
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Don't count on your navigation unit seeing a sudden improvement anytime soon, but Raytheon (http://www.engadget.com/tag/raytheon) has announced that it's landed an massive $886 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a new element of GPS called the advanced control segment (or OCX, somehow). Once complete, that promises to not only provide a range of ehancements for military GPS use (including anti-jam capabilities and improved security), but improved accuracy and reliability for civil GPS users as well. Details are otherwise a bit light, and this contract only represents the first of two development blocks, but it looks like GLONASS (http://www.engadget.com/tag/glonass) and Galileo (http://www.engadget.com/tag/galileo) may have to step up their game a bit further if they want to stay competitive in the great sat-nav race.
Raytheon scores $886 million contract to improve GPS capabilities (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/26/raytheon-scores-886-million-contract-to-improve-gps-capabilitie/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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