U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC) is a field command of the U.S. Space Force responsible for acquiring and delivering resilient warfighting capabilities to protect the nation's strategic advantage in space. It manages a significant space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense and works with the joint forces, government agencies, academic institutions, industry, and allied organizations. SSC is responsible for space development, acquisition, launch, and logistics, including managing U.S. space launch ranges. Key partners include the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Space Development Agency, Missile Defense Agency, and commercial space industry partners.
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Space Systems Command is the U.S. Space Force field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient space capabilities.
Space Systems Command manages a $15,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
The Space Systems Command will support Northrop Grumman’s development of an orbital fuel tanker for geosynchronous orbit missions that would carry up to 1,000 kg of hydrazine fuel.
Space Systems Command selected additional vendors for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 on 2024-01-26.
CSCO currently uses DISA facilities at Fort Meade, Maryland and plans to establish its own offices under Space Systems Command’s new Commercial Space Office.
Space Systems Command renewed its partnership with Microsoft Corporation to apply commercial innovations to Space Force missions.
Space Systems Command has begun training personnel on how to utilize I3E.
U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command selected Orion Space Solutions and subcontractors Hera Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, SCOUT Space, Sedaro, Utah State University, and ICR, Inc. to design, develop, and demonstrate the Tetra-5 spacecraft and autonomous collaboration capabilities.
Space Systems Command awarded Millennium Space contracts totaling $509,500,000 for the production and delivery of six Epoch 1 satellites.
The Space Systems Command established an office to lead efforts to refuel and service satellites in geostationary orbit but that office has no steady funding.
Missile-warning and missile-tracking systems consume the majority of the Space Systems Command’s $24,000,000,000 space sensors portfolio funding.
Lockheed Martin will receive $5,200,000 to create OPIR data exploitation prototypes for Space Systems Command.
Space Systems Command manages a $15,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
On 2023-11-27, Space Systems Command confirmed that Millennium Space Systems’ proposed satellite passed a critical design review and Millennium will begin manufacturing hardware for delivery and launch in late 2026.
Space Systems Command plans to acquire as many as 27 satellites for the MEO layer to increase surveillance of missile threats including hypersonic glide vehicles.
The Space Systems Command will award additional PLEO task orders for services including high-speed broadband, synthetic aperture radar imaging, space domain awareness, and alternative positioning, navigation, and timing.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $579,000,000 to Kratos on 2023-11-22.
Space Systems Command manages a $15,000,000,000 space acquisition budget for the Department of Defense.
The Space Systems Command started the FORGE program in 2019 to create an open architecture for missile-warning ground systems to replace the current proprietary ground stations developed and operated by Lockheed Martin.
Space Systems Command opened a Tools, Applications and Processing Lab in Boulder in 2021 focused on analysis of data from infrared sensor missile-warning satellites.