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Global Positioning System

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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S.-owned satellite-based radio-navigation system that provides positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. Operated by the U.S. Space Force, it consists of a constellation of satellites orbiting the Earth, broadcasting signals to GPS receivers enabling them to calculate their three-dimensional location and time. GPS is used globally in various applications, including civilian and military navigation, surveying, and timing synchronization.

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Fergani Space's mission is part of the Positioning Constellation Satellite Project to establish an independent Uluğ Bey Global Positioning System for Türkiye.

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Nov 10, 2025Middle East Space Roundup: 3 to 9 November 2025

A new multi-lateral agreement allows participating nations to buy and sell military Global Positioning System User Equipment.

LegalRelationshipsGeneralValue 2.8Nov 9, 2025Space Systems Command foreign military sales MoU for GPS user equipment represents the next era of allied partnerships

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command and the Department of War Chief Information Officer enacted a new Memorandum of Understanding to enable allied nations to build and share military Global Positioning System User Equipment.

RelationshipsCapabilityLegalValue 4.0Nov 9, 2025Space Systems Command foreign military sales MoU for GPS user equipment represents the next era of allied partnerships

Another challenge seeks tactical-grade solutions for precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) in Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments in extreme northern environments.

CapabilityGeneralValue 2.3Sep 12, 2025Department of Defence issues new IDEaS challenges

The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon a $196,700,000 contract extension for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX).

RelationshipsFinancialPlanValue 4.8Nov 29, 2024Space Force awards Raytheon $196.7 million for additional work on GPS ground control system

GNSS systems, such as the U.S.’s Global Positioning System and the EU’s Galileo, provide real-time navigation assistance.

CapabilityValue 2.0Nov 5, 2024NSAI launches Europe’s 1st verified GNSS data stream service

The Government Accountability Office released a report on 2024-09-09 assessing progress in the modernization of the Global Positioning System.

GeneralValue 2.2Sep 9, 2024U.S. GPS modernization faces delays, technical challenges: GAO report

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the first GNSS and the only one certified for flight in aviation.

GeneralValue 2.0Jul 22, 2024Staying on course: The vital role of GPS backup systems

The Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation was conceived in 1973 as a Pentagon effort to develop precision navigation and timing for military operations.

GeneralValue 1.8Feb 20, 2024The race to back up vulnerable GPS

The Transport Layer Tranche 0 satellites were assembled at a different Lockheed Martin facility where the company manufactures Global Positioning System spacecraft.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Aug 6, 2023Lockheed Martin opens new factory focused on small satellites

The Department of the Air Force is directed to report on the status of Navigation Technology Satellite-3, an experiment to demonstrate space-based positioning, navigation, and timing to augment the Global Positioning System.

PlanGeneralLegalValue 3.0Jun 12, 2023Space domain awareness provisions in draft NDAA proposal

The report identified the Global Positioning System Follow-on (GPS 3F) program as high performing in part because it was acquired under a fixed-price contract.

CapabilityRelationshipsLegalValue 3.2Jun 2, 2023Fixed-price satellite contracts earn high grades in Space Force report card

Dempsey Surveying Company produces surface model TINs and offers Global Positioning System (GPS) services.

CapabilityValue 3.0Jan 2, 2023Atwell acquires Dempsey Surveying Company

BAE Systems received a $13,000,000 contract for advanced Global Positioning System technology to protect U.S. F-15E aircraft from GPS signal jamming and spoofing.

RelationshipsCapabilityLegalValue 5.0Sep 13, 2022BAE Systems provides enhanced GPS tech for F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft

Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company a contract to deliver operations and sustainment support services for the Global Positioning System IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF.

RelationshipsValue 4.5Jul 14, 2022U.S. Space Systems Command awards Lockheed Martin Space Systems a million$$$ GPS contract

On 2022-07-12, BAE Systems delivered an undisclosed number of jam-resistant Global Positioning System receivers to Germany’s military forces.

RelationshipsValue 4.2Jul 12, 2022BAE Systems delivers jam-resistant GPS receivers to Germany

Two Global Positioning System satellites are funded in the fiscal year 2023 budget for $761,000,000.

FinancialPlanValue 4.0Mar 28, 2022Biden’s 2023 defense budget adds billions for U.S. Space Force

For safe and efficient surveying in very shallow water up to 5 m and in the surf zone, Fugro will use a jet ski equipped with a Differential Global Positioning System and a single-beam echosounder.

CapabilityValue 4.2Mar 22, 2022Fugro supports NIOT’s coastal community development plan with a large-scale bathymetry survey in India

The approximately $1,300,000,000 Congress added for military space funds technology development projects run by the Space Force, pays for an extra Global Positioning System satellite, increases spending on small launch services, and increases funding for Space Development Agency missile-detecting satellites.

FinancialPlanCapabilityValue 4.0Mar 13, 2022Congress gives DoD more money for space, with caveats

The first NIST report, titled 'An Evaluation of Dependencies of Critical Infrastructure Timing Systems on the Global Positioning System (GPS)', examines the timing requirements of critical infrastructure sectors reliant on time synchronization.

GeneralValue 2.3Mar 7, 2022Two key reports from NIST frame US government recommendations to solve resilient timing
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