18 -- Operational Control Segment Organizational Level Maintenance

The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) Joint Program Office(JPO) intends to award a sole-source, Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF) modification to contract F04701-96-C-0025 to provide approximately 70,000 staff hours of development support activities for the GPS IIF Operational Control System (OCS) to be delivered under the new Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP) and Launch and Early Orbit, Anomaly Resolution and Disposal Operations (LADO) activities, including comprehensive organizational maintenance support during the final Government verification and transition of AEP and LADO to Initial Operational Capability (IOC). GPS is a navigational radio positioning, time transfer, and Nuclear Detonation (NUDET) Detection System. The radio positioning and time transfer system provides a signal environment, which enables GPS users to precisely determine three-dimensional position, velocity, and system time. The period of performance for this effort will be from the effective date of the modification to 31 December 2007. See note 22. NAICS 334511 – Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, size standard 750 employees. The Government has been contracting with The Boeing Company, 5301 Bolsa Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 to provide GPS IIF Space Vehicles and its’ Operational Control Segment.