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NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (User Equipment) (SPACE)
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Budget figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $323.1M |
| FY25 | $282.3M |
| FY26 | $175.3M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
Decade view
P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $367.7M | $419.9M | $370.4M | $323.1M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $380.7M | $434.2M | $381.4M | $353.8M | $282.3M | |
| Request | – | – | $390.7M | $434.2M | $382.6M | $353.8M | $300.0M | $175.3M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $353.8M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $323.1M as actual total obligation authority — $30.7M below the request. 323.1 − 353.8 = -30.7 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — MILITARY GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM USER EQUIP
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based radio Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) distribution system. GPS User Equipment (UE) consists of standardized receivers, antennas, antenna electronics, and other related equipment, grouped together in sets to derive navigation and time information transmitted from GPS satellites. These receiver sets are used by the Department of Defense (DoD). Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funds UE development, integration, test, and analysis for new PNT receiver capabilities in Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) across all military platforms using GPS services. The Military Global Positioning System User Equipment (MGUE) Increment (Inc) 1 program is responsible for the development of standard modernized receiver form factors for the lead platforms. The MGUE Inc 1 Capability Development Document (CDD) was approved by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) on 24 July 2014. MGUE Inc 1 is initiating a new family of modernized GPS receivers that will deliver significantly improved capability to counter current and emerging PNT threats and enable military operations in a NAVWAR environment where current legacy receiver performance would be compromised. MGUE Inc 1 received a Milestone A decision in April 2012. The program received direction in February 2014, from the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) to execute a new acquisition strategy, accelerating the program to provide test units faster to facilitate military end users. The MGUE program received a Milestone B decision in January 2017. The MGUE Inc 2 effort will continue to expand Military-Code (M-Code) receiver technology into additional applications (precision guided munitions) and develop a Joint Modernized Handheld (JMHH) device and Aviation/Maritime receiver to meet Service requirements and address obsolescence. This effort leverages the MGUE Inc 1 technology to the maximum extent while addressing the production of M-Code integrated circuits far into the future. The MGUE Inc 2 is being executed in four parts: 1) Risk Reduction Activities, 2) Miniature Serial Interface (MSI) Receiver Card Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) rapid prototyping followed by 3) Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) and 4) Joint Modernized GPS HH Receiver Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) rapid prototyping effort. The JROC approved the MGUE Inc 2 CDD on 6 April 2018. The Air Force Service Acquisition Executive approved the MGUE Inc 2 Acquisition Strategy to include designation of two MTA Rapid Prototype efforts: 1) MSI Receiver Cards to include Next-Generation (Next Gen) Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and 2) Joint, Modernized Handheld Receiver. The SAE has approved the transition to a SWP following completion of MSI MTA to finish MSI development. Additionally, the MGUE Inc 2 program received direction for the study of an MGUE Inc 2 Aviation/Maritime receiver program and development of an acquisition strategy based on ASIC obsolescence for Inc 1. The MGUE Inc 2 MSI RP program is not fully funded across the Future Years Defense Program. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (7)
Military Global Positioning System (GPS) User Equipment (MGUE) Increment (Inc) 1 Product Development
The MGUE Inc 1 program develops standard modernized receiver form factors for lead platforms in accordance with the MGUE Inc 1 CDD.
Advanced Technology
Advanced Technology/Pre-Tech includes efforts to mature technology for future GPS receivers identified in the MGUE CDDs. These efforts aim to find innovative solutions to increase resiliency in GPS performance and improve on size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP/C) of military receivers.
MGUE Inc 1 System/Platform Integration and Performance Certification
Integration of MGUE Inc 1 receiver form factors into lead platforms in support of developmental and operational (or field) test events. Conduct technical and operational modernization impact analysis for MGUE lead platform integration.
Information Assurance, Security/Compatibility Certification, and Test/Evaluation
Develop, implement, and maintain Global Positioning System (GPS) security programs. Develop policy, strategy and resource requirements for GPS User Equipment, security certification and compatibility certification. Security certification, compatibility certification, and security approval ensures future military GPS receivers protect Critical Program Information (CPI) and continue working in all environments and concepts of operations called for by U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM).
MGUE Inc 2 Miniature Serial Interface (MSI) Receiver Card Rapid Prototyping
The MGUE Inc 2 program will develop M-Code receiver technology for additional applications (space receivers, precision guided munitions, and handheld receivers) to meet Service requirements. MGUE Inc 2 MSI Receiver Card Rapid prototyping builds on the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) post-Preliminary Design Review (PDR) progress and will develop, integrate, produce, and test M-Code capable, low size and power GPS MSI form factor to include a Next Gen ASIC. The MSI receiver card is to meet the needs of low size, weight and power (SWaP) ground-embedded users. However, the Next Gen ASIC must meet the needs of the MSI form factor and be backwards compatible with Inc 1 performance requirements as a potential functional replacement due to Inc 1 ASIC obsolescence.
MGUE Inc 2 Handheld (HH)
The MGUE Inc 2 HH effort will develop a joint common modernized HH receiver that will provide M-code, anti-spoof, and anti-jam capabilities, with significant improvements in size, weight, and power. The goal of the MGUE Inc 2 HH risk reduction activities is to reduce development risk for the MGUE Inc 2 HH receiver through feedback from the rapid prototyping process and multiple joint service demonstration events.
MGUE Inc 2 Aviation/Maritime Receiver Card
The MGUE Inc 2 Aviation/Maritime effort will develop an Aviation/Maritime receiver card that will provide M-code, anti-spoof, and anti-jam capabilities addressing Inc 1 ASIC obsolescence. The MGUE Inc 2 Aviation/Maritime effort will consist of a risk reduction study with a follow-on Middle Tier of Acquisitions (MTA). The risk reduction study will primarily aid in establishing requirements, defining an overarching funding profile, and evaluating the competitive marketplace in support of the MTA which will deliver the receiver prototype. This prototype builds upon MGUE Inc 2 MSI Receiver Card Rapid Prototyping Major Thrust ASIC efforts to address Aviation/Maritime capabilities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $323.1M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $282.3M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Total | $282.3M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $175.3M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Total | $175.3M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.
Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $1.16B | $323.1M | $282.3M | $175.3M | $175.3M |
| 643833: MILITARY GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM USER EQUIP | $1.16B | $323.1M | $282.3M | $175.3M | $175.3M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC. | FA880721C0003 | high |
| L3HARRIS INTERSTATE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION | FA880721C0005 | high |
| L3HARRIS INTERSTATE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION | FA880712C0011 | medium |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP | FA880708C0010 | medium |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | FA880710C0001 | medium |
| RAYTHEON COMPANY | FA880712C0012 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
Lobbying mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Oversight
Department-level designation (not specific to this program)
GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (User Equipment) (SPACE). No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J787
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2021 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J830
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2021_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J795
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J756
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J746
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J767
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
FY2026 Space Force Research and Development Test and Evaluation · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
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