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The meeting comes just months after the Pentagon announced it would delay initial operations of OCX by two years, to July 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. 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The most recent two-year shift creates a capability gap starting in 2019, when the Air Force needs to begin replacing its aging GPS Block II satellites with modernized GPS IIIs, because the current ground control system cannot accommodate the new technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon has received a &#8220;baseline integrated master schedule&#8221; that lays out Raytheon&#8217;s step-by-step plan for the program over the next few years, including the two-year extension, Bunch said. A new service cost position is still under review, he said.\u00a0OCX\u00a0has not incurred a so-called &#8220;Nunn\u00a0McCurdy&#8221; cost breach, Air Force\u00a0spokesman Maj. 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