System Design Review, Engineering Models Demonstrated Last
Month
Raytheon tells ANN the company has successfully completed two
significant milestones for the US Air Force's next-generation
Global Positioning System Control Segment, or GPS OCX, establishing
a solid foundation and roadmap to keep the program on track and on
schedule.
The Raytheon-led team completed the segment design review and
modernized capability engineering model demonstration December 13,
2008.
"These mark major accomplishments for our entire team and
significantly burn-down the execution risk on the program," said
Bob Canty, Raytheon GPS OCX vice president and program manager.
"Our team of industry experts worked seamlessly together to reach
and complete these critical tasks and looks forward to meeting all
future customer requirements."
The segment design review was a comprehensive review of the
team's progress in systems engineering, systems architecture and
program management.
Successful completion demonstrates that the design is sufficiently
mature and the level of residual risk is acceptable to proceed to
the program's next phase.
In keeping with the "back-to-basics" approach, the team
demonstrated the ability to command modernized GPS signals, provide
situational awareness and expose data on the network through the
modernized capability engineering model demonstration. The Raytheon
team also demonstrated time-certain delivery by achieving all model
objectives on time and within budget.
Canty added, "Both milestones allowed us to show the customer
that we have met their requirements, significantly reduced program
risk and are well-positioned to deliver our GPS OCX solution. Our
back-to-basics approach to developing our GPS control segment
demonstrates our understanding and alignment with the needs of our
US Air Force customer."
The Raytheon-led team is on track to complete the remaining
program milestones and is working under a $160 million Phase A
system design and risk reduction contract. The contract was awarded
by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air
Force Base, in November 2007 to produce the new control segment for
the current and future GPS systems.
The completion of the segment design review and modernized
capability engineering model is an accomplishment of Raytheon
Company, ITT, The Boeing Company, Infinity Engineering Systems, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, SRI International and Braxton
Technologies.