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Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS)

Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) · Fielded · U.S. Space Force

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About

The Global Positioning System is the Space Force's constellation of navigation satellites, which gives military and civilian users worldwide position, navigation and timing data. The program covers the satellites, the ground control system with its master control station and monitor stations, and the user equipment. The system is operated by Space Delta 8 at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.

Contracts$12.00B obligated since FY2008

Contractors15

  1. RTX$5.45B 45%
  2. Lockheed Martin$5.08B 42%
  3. Boeing$648M 5.4%
  4. Leidos$456M 3.8%
  5. Northrop Grumman$205M 1.7%
  6. MANTECH$92.6M 0.8%
  7. Draper$22.6M 0.2%
  8. BAE Systems$12.8M 0.1%
  9. L3Harris Technologies$11.8M 0.1%
  10. General Dynamics$6.4M 0.1%
  11. SAIC$4.3M 0.0%
  12. SpaceX$4.0M 0.0%

Awards50

Obligations are signed USAspending prime-contract actions coded to this program, FY2008 to date, credited to the company that received each action. Obligations are money committed, not company revenue.