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SMC Building 'Catalog' For Common Satellite C2 Ops « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary


By  
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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