DENVER, April 8 (UPI) -- U.S. company Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) said Monday its GPS IIR-M satellite launched nearly two months ago is now deployed.

The company said in a statement that a joint team of LM and U.S. Air Force engineers and technicians had finished work enabling the modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR -- GPS IIR-19M -- satellite fired into space March 15 from Cape Canaveral to quickly become operational.

The company said the GPS IIR-M carried upgrades that would boost its operations and navigation signal performance. The satellite is now active and serving both U.S. armed forces and civilian navigation users around the globe.

Lockheed Martin said its operations team worked with the U.S. Air Force Space Command's 2nd Space Operations Squadron -- 2 SOPS -- and its Reserve associate unit 19 SOPS based at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., when the air force unit was preparing the spacecraft for its firing into space and for its early orbit maneuvers.

The process of organizing the on-orbit deployment and checkout of the satellite's systems then of activating its payload initialization was carried out in just over nine days, the company said.