Under the 18-month cost plus award fee contract, Northrop Grumman's Team OCX will provide architecture design; communications and network engineering; information assurance and security; modeling and simulation; network management; software development; support, maintenance and implementation; systems engineering and integration; and test and evaluation. If Northrop Grumman's Team OCX is selected to proceed into system development, the program could potentially be valued at more than $1 billion.

"The Northrop Grumman team offers a low-risk solution that will readily evolve to meet the ever-increasing operational demands placed on GPS. We are excited by the opportunity to partner our experienced industry team with the Air Force to modernize GPS command and control," said Steve Bergjans, GPS OCX vice president and program manager for Northrop Grumman. "Our team is positioned to measurably improve the operational responsiveness, availability, survivability and accuracy of global GPS services."

Northrop Grumman's Team OCX includes Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Fla.; Integral Systems, Inc., Lanham, Md.; General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Arlington, Va.; Infinity Systems Engineering, Colorado Springs, Colo.; NAVSYS Corporation, Colorado Springs; and Applied Minds, Glendale, Calif.

Under an Air Force risk reduction effort, Northrop Grumman has since 2005 supported the study of state-of-the-art capabilities in satellite control segment software and hardware architecture and developed innovative architectures to meet OCX performance requirements.

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