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

Raytheon said April 12 it passed the first of three key tests in developing the initial capabilities for the ground control system that will run the Air Force’s next-generation of GPS satellites.

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Mike Gruss is the chief content and strategy officer at SpaceNews. From 2013 to 2016 he was a senior reporter at SpaceNews covering military space. Previously, he was editor in chief of Sightline Media Group and worked as a reporter and columnist for...