USAF

GA-ASI CAA makes first flight Aug.t 27, 2025. (Credit: GA-ASI)

September 17, 2025

Military drones advance as law enforcement seeks expanded counter-UAS mitigation authority

By Tony Murfin

February 3, 2023

SandboxAQ obtains USAF quantum nav research contract

By Maddie Saines

With USNO personnel, members of the 746 TS reconfigure the Master LocataLite site for the test. (Photo: 746 TS/USAF)

January 15, 2020

Finding time: Accuracy test of Locata Network takes place at White Sands

By Christopher Black

An HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter lands in Afghanistan; a UH-60 Blackhawk is in the background. (Photo: (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Ferguson)

July 30, 2018

FreeFlight SBAS/GNSS receiver chosen for USAF helicopter fleet

By Tracy Cozzens

March 14, 2018

U.S. Air Force awards GPS III launch services contract

By Tracy Cozzens

The GPS Operational Control System's launch and checkout system will control launch and early orbit operations and the on-orbit checkout of all GPS III satellites. (Image: Raytheon)Image: Raytheon

November 2, 2017

U.S. Air Force accepts delivery of GPS OCX baseline

By Tracy Cozzens

Team Vandenberg launches its first SpaceX launch from Space Launch Complex-4 Sept. 29, 2013. 30th Space Wing's 1st Air and Space Test Squadron was the lead for all launch site certification activities at Vandenberg for SpaceX as an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle New Entrant. The squadron evaluated SpaceX's flight and ground systems, processes and procedures for the upgraded Falcon-9 rocket. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Yvonne Morales)

March 15, 2017

SpaceX wins second US Air Force contract to launch GPS III

By GPS World Staff

January 24, 2017

USAF to test increased GPS signal power Jan. 25

By GPS World Staff

December 15, 2016

US Air Force approves Lockheed’s ground control upgrade for GPS III

By GPS World Staff

Non-GPS positioning system, White Sands North Range. X = transmitter site. (Photo: U.S. Air force, 746 Test Squadron)

August 4, 2016

Air Force upgrades to better field reference system for testing GPS denial

By Capt. James Kawecki, James Brewer, Jason Baldwin, and John Cao

Military drones advance as law enforcement seeks expanded counter-UAS mitigation authority

SandboxAQ obtains USAF quantum nav research contract

Finding time: Accuracy test of Locata Network takes place at White Sands

FreeFlight SBAS/GNSS receiver chosen for USAF helicopter fleet

U.S. Air Force awards GPS III launch services contract

U.S. Air Force accepts delivery of GPS OCX baseline

SpaceX wins second US Air Force contract to launch GPS III

USAF to test increased GPS signal power Jan. 25

US Air Force approves Lockheed’s ground control upgrade for GPS III

Air Force upgrades to better field reference system for testing GPS denial

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