GPS Enterprise Integration

Abstract

The Global Positioning System (GPS) Program Office established and maintains the technical baseline and is responsible for the successful fielding of all the GPS Segments (space, control, and user). In order to successfully execute these responsibilities, GPS Enterprise Integrator (EI) creates an enterprise architecture, integrates segment products, verifies the enterprise requirements are adequately met, develops and implements various Systems Engineering documents, defines methods of verification, conducts integrated system test and test analysis, develops and manages the Enterprise technical baseline which reflect multiple stakeholder requirements; stakeholders include the Department of Defense (DoD), foreign governments, industry, and the general public (through four public interface specifications). Furthermore, GPS EI ensures PNT capabilities meet the warfighter's, civil agencies, commercial entities, international treaties, and over four billion global GPS users needs. Moreover, GPS EI is responsible for delivering a reliable Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) signal capability to military operators, the civil user community, and international partners. In addition, GPS EI validates the system performance in various mission threat scenarios during its development as well as provides in-depth technical expertise to enhance government control, oversight and program accountability. GPS EI is also responsible for all aspects of schedule and technical alignment across the GPS segments (space, control, and user equipment). More specifically, GPS EI is responsible for technical baseline management, integration, synchronizing, testing, and verifying GPS III, GPS III Follow-on (IIIF), Operational Control System (OCS), Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment (Inc) 1 and Inc 2, and other PNT investment projects. Additionally, GPS EI is responsible for creating and managing plans that provide early exercise of the products under development, compatibility analysis, and inter-segment testing. The inter-segment tests are required to prove OCX interoperability with GPS III satellites and Modernized User Equipment. More importantly, it ensures backwards compatibility with legacy systems such as GPS Block II satellites, OCS, and legacy user equipment. The GPS EI also manages the process through which the Joint Requirements Oversight Council validated requirements are matured and flowed down to the system segments, while remaining consistent with various interfaces. This enables the GPS system to meet Title 10 of the USC, Sec 2281, mandated PNT capabilities, and various other obligations to the international community that provide inter-operable PNT signals. GPS EI also supports GPS spectrum protection at international forums such as the International Telecommunications Union. Such support consists of providing technical support to the Departments of State and Defense to advocate on behalf of the US Government when negotiating with foreign partners. In addition, GPS EI provides technical expertise to maintain relationships with other US government agencies that include the Federal Aviation Administration, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Departments of State, Transportation, Homeland Security, and Commerce. GPS EI Spectrum also ensures GPS priority for eight essential spectrum signals, including those required for civil air navigation and safety of life. Spectrum Protection prevents encroachment from commercial or foreign entities, which results in the preservation of warfighter's reliable signal. As a result, military operations and the integrity of the global economic infrastructure are protected. GPS EI also manages GPS and other navigation system performance monitoring and publishes performance specifications and reports to ensure anomalies with GPS can be resolved. In addition, GPS EI provides technical expertise for the development for GPS program technical baselines and public specifications to make certain that the DoD fulfills its commitment to the world for civilian GPS Service. GPS EI also provides the PNT enterprise expertise in Enterprise Schedule Management, Risk Management, System Safety, Enterprise level System Security Engineering covering Acquisition Systems Program Security (i.e., personnel, industrial, operations, information, sensitive compartmented information, communication, and physical), Program Protection, Foreign Disclosure, Public Release reviews, Mission System Certification and Accreditation, and Enterprise Cybersecurity. GPS EI is accountable for the development, execution, and analysis of the PNT Enterprise Segments, cybersecurity, and associated test cases necessary to deliver a secure operational system. GPS EI will support a range of future Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) initiatives to include program planning and strategies, technology assessments, PNT innovation initiatives, systems engineering, approach to integrating new capabilities into the current GPS Enterprise, and other related activities. Future PNT development initiatives will be strongly influenced by modeling and analysis currently in development by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC). This could include a broad range of innovations such as enhancements to Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE), creative distribution of Timing, PNT signal situational awareness, advanced payloads, optical crosslinks, or future proliferated GPS spacecraft.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 653171_1203269SF_5_3620F_PB_2025

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space