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U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command

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U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is an Army space and missile defense command supporting the U.S. Army, U.S. Space Command, U.S. Northern Command, and U.S. Strategic Command.

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USASMDC's payload development laboratory at Redstone Arsenal provides ground systems for command and telemetry to the satellite.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Dec 13, 2023Leidos' Lonestar On-Orbit Demonstration Program Successfully Concludes

CACI International signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center on 2023-02-06.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Feb 6, 2023CACI to collaborate with U.S. Army on space technologies

The USASMDC payload development laboratory on Redstone Arsenal provides ground systems for command and telemetry to the satellite.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Sep 28, 2022Dynetics team celebrates ‘substantial milestone’ with launch of Lonestar satellite payload

Chip Hardy is Division Chief of the SMDC Space Applications Division and supports evaluating small satellite capabilities such as those offered by HawkEye 360 for the tactical warfighter.

GovernanceCapabilityValue 3.0Aug 31, 2022HawkEye 360 Announces Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army

SMDC develops and provides current and future global space, missile defense, and high-altitude capabilities to the U.S. Army, the Joint Force, and allies and partners to enable multi-domain combat effects and enhance deterrence, assurance, and detection of strategic attacks.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Aug 25, 2022U.S. Army Signs Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with HawkEye 360

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command plans to develop payloads rather than build complete satellites, with those payloads to be integrated by the Space Force or other organizations onto military or commercial satellite buses.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Aug 14, 2022U.S. Army hands over satellite operations to Space Force, but keeps a foothold in space

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command developed and launched satellites including Kestrel Eye, Gunsmoke-J imaging spacecraft, and the Lonestar experiment for space-based situational awareness.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Aug 14, 2022U.S. Army hands over satellite operations to Space Force, but keeps a foothold in space

Under the CRADA, SpaceLink and USASMDC-TC will work together to explore alternative space communications pathways that ensure resiliency and reduce sensor-to-shooter latency.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 3.6Aug 9, 2022SpaceLink signs cooperative R&D agreement with U.S. Army

SpaceLink signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on 2022-08-08.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Aug 8, 2022SpaceLink and U.S. Army to study use of relay constellation to deliver data to troops in the field

Under the CRADA, SpaceLink and USASMDC-TC will collaborate to explore alternative space communications pathways to ensure resiliency and reduce sensor-to-shooter latency.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Aug 8, 2022A cooperative R&D agreement signed by SpaceLink with the U.S. Army

X-Bow Systems will test its additively manufactured solid propellant technology on a second mission sponsored by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Department of Defense Innovation Unit.

PlanRelationshipsValue 4.0Jul 31, 2022X-Bow’s Bolt modular boost rocket launches successfully from White Sands Missile Range

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command provides satellite communication and other space support services to U.S. Space Command and maintains crews deployed around the world.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Aug 10, 2021U.S. Army space commander concerned about disruptions to satellites

The Blackjack program awarded a Small Business Innovation Research contract to Augustus Aerospace to work on an Army Space and Missile Defense Command payload.

RelationshipsValue 4.6May 11, 2020DARPA to begin launching Blackjack satellites in late 2020

Over the past two years, Army SMDC provided space training for 20 brigade rotations at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Aug 6, 2019Army general poised to become No. 2 at U.S. Space Command

Dickinson has led Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) since 2017.

GovernanceValue 3.2Aug 6, 2019Army general poised to become No. 2 at U.S. Space Command

Over the past two years, Army SMDC provided space training for 19 rotations at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Aug 6, 2019Army general poised to become No. 2 at U.S. Space Command

Over the past two years, Army SMDC provided space training for 23 mission command rotations at the Army’s training center in Hohenfels, Germany.

CapabilityValue 3.0Aug 6, 2019Army general poised to become No. 2 at U.S. Space Command

Dynetics was selected to develop small satellites for U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command under a program named Gunsmoke-L.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Nov 14, 2018U.S. Army kicks off new small satellite program
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