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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NSTTC operational planning began in late 2021 in coordination with Space Systems Command and Headquarters U.S. Space Force.
U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific will develop six antennas for RGS-A to enable the Space Systems Command Next Generation Space Based Infrared System Ground System to operate legacy satellites in geostationary orbit.
The mission of Space Systems Command is to provide real-time global access to resilient and sustainable SATCOM capabilities for joint operations warfighters.
BAE Systems will develop the mission data framework for U.S. Space Systems Command's Enterprise Management and Control system.
Under its agreement with Space Systems Command, the Commercial Space Futures Office can offer space companies access to 100,000 square feet of laboratory facilities to validate their technology.
U.S. Space Systems Command is seeking opportunities to buy space-as-a-service from companies that provide weather data, imagery, and other intelligence collected by satellites.
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. was awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command with strategic support from SpaceWERX.
The 39-month Slingshot Aerospace contract includes $16,800,000 from Space Systems Command and $8,400,000 from SpaceWERX.
The Space Systems Command’s Space Enterprise Consortium awarded a $2,000,000 contract to Slingshot Aerospace in September to prototype an analytics tool that ingests data from low Earth orbit satellites.
Spire is providing GPS telemetry data to a U.S. Space Systems Command project that aims to automate manual data analysis techniques and produce more timely intelligence for military operations.
The Space Systems Command CASINO program develops and demonstrates the military utility of proliferated LEO satellite architectures.
Space Systems Command procured the Wide Field of View satellite to serve as a testbed for Wide Field of View technologies in geosynchronous orbit for the missile-warning mission and as an enabling asset for missile tracking and missile defense missions.
PredaSAR Corporation, a Terran Orbital subsidiary, was awarded a $2,000,000 contract by the U.S. Space Systems Command in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory to support an on-orbit cooperative demonstration between the PredaSAR and Blackjack constellations.
The Space Systems Command was stood up in August 2021 and replaced the Space and Missile Systems Center, which was first established in 1954.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John 'Jay' Raymond and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall directed a review of Space Systems Command shortly after SSC was established in August 2021.
Space Force leaders unveiled details of the Space Systems Command reorganization at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium on 2024-03-04.
The Space Systems Command overhaul reverses the previous SMC 2.0 structure that the Air Force conceived in 2018 and completed by 2019.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a $341,000,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to develop, test, and deliver a Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC).
Space Systems Command has an $11,000,000,000 annual budget and nearly 10,000 personnel.
Space Systems Command’s Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) awarded the contract on 2022-02-22 for the project known as Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC).