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The former Space and Missile Systems Center established a Program Integration Council (PIC) that includes representatives from the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies that acquire space systems.
Northrop Grumman successfully launched the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) payload into orbit for the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center using the company’s Pegasus XL rocket.
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium plans to issue a request for prototype proposals by 2021-06-30.
The Atlas V rocket will launch the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) for the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is the U.S. Space Force’s center of acquisition excellence for acquiring and developing military space systems.
FORGE is focused on processing OPIR data and is partnering with the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) for tactical command and control of future satellites using common standards.
The Space and Missile Systems Center established a software factory in Los Angeles named Kobayashi Maru to develop cloud-based applications for tracking space objects and sharing data with allies.
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) achieved a milestone on 2020-09-30 when the GPS Foreign Military Sales (FMS) office received its first M-code MGUE order.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is located at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California and serves as the center of excellence for acquiring and developing military space systems.
The Space and Missile Systems Center has an annual budget of about $9,000,000,000 and is the military’s largest buyer of space technologies.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded three Other Transaction Authority agreements on 2020-06-03 with a total value of $309,000,000 to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, General Atomics, and Raytheon Technologies to develop weather satellite prototypes.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded three Other Transaction Authority agreements on 2020-06-03 totaling $309,000,000 to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group, and Raytheon Technologies to develop prototypes for the Electro Optical/Infrared Weather Satellite System.
Collins Aerospace was one of three companies selected on 2020-07-08 by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to develop new GPS handheld devices for the U.S. military.
The Space and Missile Systems Center plans to deploy all five Next-Gen OPIR satellites by 2029.
Space and Missile Systems Center is developing the Next Generation OPIR Block 0 that is scheduled to launch in 2025.
In 2016 the Space and Missile Systems Center awarded prototype development contracts worth $39,000,000 to Raytheon, $38,000,000 to L3Harris, and $33,000,000 to Viasat to develop prototype modems.
SMC 2.0 is an initiative to revise the Space and Missile Systems Center’s approach to producing weapon systems by flattening the organization, delegating responsibilities to appropriate levels, expanding partnerships with industry and allies, incorporating more innovation into space systems, and changing the culture to become less risk averse.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is working to integrate the WASP payload with a satellite bus acquired from Millennium Space Systems.
The immediate test for the reorganized Space and Missile Systems Center is to begin developing a constellation of missile warning and surveillance satellites to replace the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS).