Boeing Dedicates New GPS Colorado Springs Facility
By Staff Writer | December 4, 2003
Boeing [NYSE: BA] officials dedicated the new Boeing GPS center in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Positioning System (GPS) program in Colorado Springs, Colo. The center was created to develop, integrate, test and sustain the control segment hardware and software for the GPS IIF satellites. The first of six Boeing GPS-IIF satellites ordered by the Air Force is scheduled for launch in mid-2006.