L-3 Telemetry-West (L-3 TW), which is a division of L-3 Communications, has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) to supply a Command, Control, Communications, and Monitor (C3M) system used in factory testing on the GPS III Program. The C3 M software is based on L-3 TW’s InControl software product, which supports satellite test and on-orbit operations.

In the C3M environment, InControl will provide the test executive for LMSSC’s Factory Assembly, Integration and Test (AI&T) of the GPS-III satellites. The GPS III C3 M program is the third in a series of large satellite factory test systems at Lockheed Martin based on the InControl software. L-3 TW will provide the C3 M systems for primary AI&T activities at LMSSC’s Littleton, Colorado, location, as well as additional test systems at Lockheed Martin in Newtown, Pennyslvania, and at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.