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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
NATION
Next-generation GPS
satellites set for space
BY DAN ELLIOTT ~Z
Associated Press >1 > Jw. I
PATRICK H. CORKERY I Associated Press
This April 9, 2015 photo provided by Lockheed Martin
shows the first GPS III satellite being built in a clean room
at Lockheed Martin’s complex south of Denver. The satellite
is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on
Tuesday, Dec. 18.
DENVER — After
months of delays, the U.S.
Air Force is about to launch
the first of a new generation
of GPS satellites, designed
to be more accurate, secure
and versatile.
But some of their most
highly touted features will
not be fully available until
2022 or later because of
problems in a companion
program to develop a new
ground control system for
the satellites, government
auditors said.
The satellite is scheduled
to lift off Tuesday from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, aboard
a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
It’s the first of 32 planned
GPS III satellites that will
replace older ones now in
orbit. Lockheed Martin is
building the new satellites
outside Denver.
GPS is best-known for its
widespread civilian appli
cations, from navigation to
time-stamping bank trans
actions. The Air Force esti
mates that 4 billion people
worldwide use the system.
But it was developed by
the U.S. military, which still
designs, launches and oper
ates the system. The Air
Force controls a constella
tion of 31 GPS satellites from
a high-security complex at
Schriever Air Force Base
outside Colorado Springs.
Compared with their pre
decessors, GPS III satellites
will have a stronger mili
tary signal that’s harder to
jam — an improvement that
became more urgent after
Norway accused Russia of
disrupting GPS signals dur
ing a NATO military exer
cise this fall.
GPS III also will provide a
new civilian signal compat
ible with other countries’
navigation satellites, such
as the European Union’s
Galileo system. That means
civilian receivers capable of
receiving the new signal will
have more satellites to lock
in on, improving accuracy.
“If your phone is look
ing for satellites, the more
it can see, the more it can
know where it is,” said Chip
Eschenfelder, a Lockheed
Martin spokesman.
The new satellites are
expected to provide loca
tion information that’s three
times more accurate than
the current satellites.
Current civilian GPS
receivers are accurate to
within 10 to 33 feet, depend
ing on conditions, said Glen
Gibbons, the founder and
former editor of Inside
GNSS, a website and maga
zine that tracks global navi
gation satellite systems.
With the new satellites,
civilian receivers could be
accurate to within 3 to 10
feet under good conditions,
and military receivers could
be a little closer, he said.
Only some aspects of the
stronger, jamming-resistant
military signal will be avail
able until a new and com
plex ground control system
is available, and that is not
expected until 2022 or 2023,
said Cristina Chaplain, who
tracks GPS and other pro
grams for the Government
Accountability Office.
Chaplain said the new
civilian frequency won’t be
available at all until the new
control system is ready.
The price of the first 10
satellites is estimated at
$577 million each, up about
6 percent from the original
2008 estimate when adjusted
for inflation, Chaplain said.
The Air Force said in
September it expects the
remaining 22 satellites to
cost $7.2 billion, but the GAO
estimated the cost at $12
billion.
The first GPS III satellite
was declared ready nearly
2 1 /2 years behind schedule.
The problems included
delays in the delivery of
key components, retesting
of other components and a
decision by the Air Force to
use a Falcon 9 rocket for the
first time for a GPS launch,
Chaplain said. That required
extra time to certify the Fal
con 9 for a GPS mission.
The new ground control
system, called OCX, is in
worse shape. OCX, which
is being developed by Ray
theon, is at least four years
behind schedule and is
expected to cost $2.5 billion
more than the original $3.7
billion, Chaplain said.
The Defense Department
has struggled with making
sure OCX meets cybersecu
rity standards, she said. A
Pentagon review said both
the government and Ray
theon performed poorly on
the program.
Raytheon has overcome
the cybersecurity problems,
and the program has been
on budget and on schedule
for more than a year, said
Bill Sullivan, a Raytheon
vice president in the OCX
system.
Sullivan said the company
is on track to deliver the
system to the Air Force in
June 2021, ahead of GAO’s
estimates.
The Air Force has devel
oped work-arounds so it can
launch and use GPS III satel
lites until OCX is ready to go.
While the first GPS III
waits for liftoff in Florida,
the second is complete and
ready to be transported to
Cape Canaveral. It sits in a
cavernous “clean room” at
a Lockheed Martin complex
in the Rocky Mountain foot
hills south of Denver.
GOP House candidate could
be replaced following probe
BY EMERY P. DALESI0
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Leg
islation quickly passed by
North Carolina’s lawmak
ers this week would prepare
a path for Republicans to
dump their nominee in a still-
undecided U.S. House race
marred with ballot fraud
allegations.
“I think (legislators are)
worried that Mark Harris
might be damaged goods and
they want to have the oppor
tunity to have a different
Republican nominee,” said
Carter Wrenn, a Republican
operative and consultant to
former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms
and others for more than 40
years. “That’s how I read
those tea leaves.”
If the state elections board
decides ballot irregulari
ties or other problems cast
the true outcome into doubt
and force a redo, the legisla
tion — if allowed to go into
law by Democratic Gov. Roy
Cooper — would require new
primary elections in the 9th
Congressional District race,
in addition to a new general
election.
That would allow Repub
licans another look at Mark
Harris, the Republican who
led Democrat Dan McCready
by 905 votes in unofficial
results. Harris hasn’t been
certified the winner, and an
investigation is looking into
missing absentee ballots in
rural Bladen County and
whether unsealed ballots ille
gally handled by collection
teams there could have been
altered.
Bladen was the only county
among the eight within the
9th District where Harris won
a majority of mail-in absen
tee ballots over McCready.
State Rep. David Lewis,
a Harnett County
Republican, said
holding new primary
elections in the 9th
District made sense
because unusual
absentee ballots
results also cropped
up during last May’s
primary. Harris
won 96 percent of
the mail-in ballots in
Bladen County on the way to
his narrow victory over GOP
Rep. Robert Pittenger.
The Republican-led Gen
eral Assembly “has a political
motive for doing this. They
realize that Mark Harris is
a damaged candidate and
they’re trying to find a means
of replacing him on the bal
lot,” said U.S. Rep. G. K. But
terfield, a North Carolina
Democrat. “So this is a pre
emptive strike, in my opin
ion, to remove Mark Harris
and to get another nominee
in there.”
New primaries would
open the door to Pittenger
or anyone else to carry the
Republican banner against
McCready or some other
Democrat.
Pittenger said he wants to
wait until after the elections
board reveals its investiga
tive findings at a hearing that
was postponed Friday until
Jan. 11, meaning the seat will
stay empty when Congress
assembles Jan. 3.
“I have received calls from
a number of friends in the last
couple days. My instincts are
that I just think we ought to
wait for this evidentiary hear
ing and let all the facts come
out. Then after that, maybe I
can give more consideration
to that,” he said in an
interview Friday.
State Republi
can Party Execu
tive Director Dallas
Woodhouse said that
if there were to be a
new primary elec
tion the state GOP
would stay neutral
but “every candi
date who enters that
primary, if there is one, will
have a chance to make their
case.”
In an interview with WBTV
on Friday, Harris stopped
short of criticizing party offi
cials when he was asked if he
felt under attack by fellow
Republicans. “Well I cer
tainly don’t feel the circling
of the wagons around Harris
the way I see the Democrats
circling the wagons around
McCready,” Harris said.
Democrats could sue if
primaries are set in motion,
Butterfield said. Pittenger
and other Republicans didn’t
contest Harris’ nomination
though suspicions about
absentee ballots in Bladen
County were raised then, so
now should be too late, But
terfield said.
“It’s fundamentally unfair
to a candidate who has raised
and spent millions of dollars
in anticipation of Mark Harris
being the opponent, to have to
go through that again with a
different opponent,” Butter
field said. “Dan McCready
shouldn’t have to face two dif
ferent opponents.”
Harris
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