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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 awarded Raytheon a $197,000,000 five-year contract in January 2020 to design an open-architecture system for FORGE.
The Office of Col. Rhet Turnbull at the Space and Missile Systems Center is leading an effort to develop an open platform to process and distribute data from current and future missile-warning satellites.
The U.S. Space Force plans to spend an estimated $12,000,000,000 over the next several years on a new system called Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR).
Lockheed Martin’s 2021-01-04 contract requires the company to develop a ground system for Next-Gen OPIR and to produce a transition plan to migrate its proprietary technology to the Space and Missile Systems Center’s open architecture.
The U.S. Space Force revealed its new rank structure for officers and enlisted personnel on 2021-01-29.
The U.S. Space Force was established in December 2019.
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 U.S. Space Force was created to train and equip forces that are assigned to U.S. Space Command.
The Space and Missile Systems Center ended the Launch Service Agreements with Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman on 2020-12-31.
Hyten expressed uncertainty about changes to the U.S. Space Force under President Biden.
The U.S. Space Force is standing up a Space Systems Command to oversee acquisitions and plans to build a space intelligence center.
A constellation of 31 GPS satellites operated by the U.S. Space Force uses radio navigation to provide positioning, navigation, and timing information to military and civilian users worldwide.
After contracting officers reviewed the court judgment, the Space and Missile Systems Center confirmed on 2021-01-15 that the contract award to NSTXL will move forward.
The Space and Missile Systems Center selected NSTXL to manage the Space Enterprise Consortium on 2020-12-10.
The Space and Missile Systems Center intended to award the consortium management contract on 2020-12-31 but delayed the award to further evaluate a court judgment against NSTXL in a lawsuit filed by a former business partner.
National Security Technology Accelerator received a contract on 2021-01-15 to manage the U.S. Space Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium for 10 years.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is developing a strategy to transition from the ongoing prototype effort to a follow-on program that can deploy a long-term multi-band multi-mission solution for the Satellite Control Network.
L3Harris Technologies completed development of an electronic phased array ground antenna for the U.S. Space Force on 2021-01-12.
The technology demonstration aims to improve communications with the U.S. Space Force's growing number of satellites.