The

United States Space Force The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and the world's only independent space force. Along with its sister branch, the U.S. Air Force, the Space ...

's Global Positioning Systems Directorate is a unit of the

Space and Missile Systems Center Space Systems Command (SSC) is the United States Space Force's space development, acquisition, launch, and logistics field command. It is headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California and manages the United States' space launch ...

located at

Los Angeles AFB Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB) is a United States Space Force Base located in El Segundo, California. Los Angeles Air Force Base houses and supports the headquarters of the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC), which ...

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Mission

To develop, produce and maintain the fleet of

Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...

satellites, their associated ground control equipment, and end-user technologies. The day-to-day operations of the GPS network are handled by the 50th Space Wing.

History

Previous designations

* GPS Joint Program Office (JPO) 1973–2006 * Global Positioning Systems Wing(GPSW) 2006-

Bases stationed

List of directors

* Col Wesley Ballenger Jr., ~2003–June 18, 2007 * Col David Madden, June 18, 2007–July 2010 * Col Bernard Gruber, July 2010–June 13, 2013 * Col

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, June 13, 2013 – July 8, 2015 * Col Steven P. Whitney, July 8, 2015–June 2019 * Col John C. Claxton

References

External links

GPSW Fact Sheet

2007 July Interview with Col. David Madden

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