As the Chinese military builds its capacity and capability with large investments, the United States should take care to preserve its technological edge, said Gen. Gary North, Pacific Air Forces commander. “I think we’re a bit naïve looking at them in the short term,” said North during Wednesday’s four-star forum at AFA’s Air & Space Conference just outside of Washington, D.C. The Chinese military is increasing the quality and quantity of its forces and closing the technological gap with nations like the United States. “That’s why we have to keep a technological edge, because we do not have a quantity edge that we had years ago,” said North.
A decade and a half after awarding a contract for a new ground control system to manage its GPS satellites, the Pentagon has finally gotten its hands on the thing. The Space Force officially took ownership of the GPS Next Generation Operational Control System, or OCX, the service announced this week.…