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While GEOST has made infrared sensors for classified systems in the ones and twos, the new contract will involve building infrared sensors designed to be used in a larger constellation, LightRidge CEO Bill Gattle told Breaking Defense.
The "baseline" MEO missile warning/tracking configuration providing global coverage will include "approximately 27 satellites," said SSC program lead Col. Heather Bogstie.
The funds in question essentially are monies that the Defense Department wants to move around from one program to another deemed more urgent something that happens every year because DoD budget requests happen nearly a year before funds can be spent.