Lockheed Martin has joined the Northrop Grumman-led team that is competing against Raytheon to supply the Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System ground control segment, known as OCX. Lockheed Martin is a “tremendous addition,” said Steve Bergjans, Northrop Grumman’s GPS OCX program manager, said in the company’s April 28 release. “We are pleased to join Northrop Grumman’s Team OCX,” said Vicki Schmanske, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of Space Command and Control Systems. The OCX will control GPS Block II and future Block III satellites. Both Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are operating under $160 million Phase A contracts awarded in November 2007. Raytheon announced March 28 that its team has completed the system requirements review of its OCX concept.
Anduril and General Atomics will develop their Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the Air Force, beating out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, the service announced on April 24. But any of the non-selected companies can compete to actually manufacture the eventual design, the Air Force said.