The Air Force said work on a new ground control system for GPS 3 satellites has triggered a Nunn-McCurdy breach. |

Frustrated with progress on a new ground system for the next-generation of GPS satellites the Pentagon hopes to start launching just over a year from now, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $96 million contract modification Feb. 4 to adapt the existing ground system to serve as a stop-gap measure.

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