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Theresa Hitchens on March 11, 2021 at 10:55 AM
Satellite operators at the GPS master control center at Schriever AFB
WASHINGTON: Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is wrapping up the prototype phase of its ambitious effort to create a common tool kit for routine command and control (C2) of all DoD’s satellites. SMC now aims to have an acquisition strategy ready in time for the fiscal 2023 budget chop, officials say.
“We are putting together that formal acquisition strategy,” Joshua Sullivan, SMC’s program manager for the Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) said in an interview yesterday. “I expect that we will start coordinating through the Space Force on that in the next fiscal year, so in FY22.”
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To reflect that the SDA Tracking Layer satellites will be able to directly tip and queue other OPIR satellites in future; and the resumption of the program.
WASHINGTON: The $4.9 billion contract to produce three Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) missile warning satellites seems to fly in the face of loudly touted Air and Space Force efforts to embrace open standards and cut the number of ground stations, receivers and antennas, experts said.
Instead, the new contract awarded to Lockheed Martin includes bespoke ground systems and sensor processing software raising questions in particular about how the data collected eventually will be shared with the Space Development Agency’s ballistic and hypersonic missile tracking sats.
As a new service, we have an opportunity here to really establish ourselves in a new way leveraging digital technologies, and leveraging digital processes and practices in a new way, says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting chief technology innovation officer.
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Theresa Hitchens on December 23, 2020 at 4:01 AM
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