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Leonardo DRS Global Enterprise Solutions is a business unit of defense contractor Leonardo DRS that provides managed satcom services to the Defense Department and other government agencies.
The Transport Layer is a Defense Department communications network planned for low Earth orbit.
SES Government Solutions supplies elements intended to meet the Department of Defense’s Fighting SATCOM posture and deliver assured communications in contested environments.
Hughes Network Systems, LLC was awarded an $18,000,000 contract by the Department of Defense to deploy a standalone 0.005 kg network at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state.
Leonardo DRS Global Enterprise Solutions is one of a handful of network integrators that provide managed satcom services to the Defense Department and other government agencies.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has advocated shifting Department of Defense capabilities to low Earth orbit and larger constellations because very large, exquisite satellites cost more and take longer to build and launch.
The Defense Department is investing in geostationary, medium, and proliferated low Earth orbit satcom simultaneously to increase resilience through diversity.
The ThinSat Ka500 meets U.S. Army Capability Sets 25 and 27 (CS25 and CS27) requirements to provide command, control, and communications capabilities supporting DoD JADC2 for wheeled and tracked vehicles.
Tranche 1 will serve as the backbone for the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control by enabling low-latency data transport, sensor-to-shooter connectivity, and direct-to-weapon connectivity.
The Space Development Agency planned to start buying the next batch of 28 Tracking Layer satellites in 2022 but no funding had been requested in the Pentagon’s budget.
Congress directed a $550,000,000 increase to the Pentagon’s 2022 budget to procure sensor satellites and launch them to low Earth orbit to detect and track Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles.
Tranche 1 will serve as the backbone for the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control built on low-latency data transport, sensor-to-shooter connectivity, and direct-to-weapon connectivity.
The $550,000,000 is not sufficient to deploy all 28 Tracking Layer satellites, creating an expectation that the Department of Defense will request additional funding in an upcoming budget proposal.
The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency purchased the first eight Tracking Layer satellites in 2020, four from L3Harris and four from a SpaceX–Leidos team.
Current Department of Defense geostationary satellites provide global missile warning and detect launches of short-range and intercontinental ballistic missiles but were not designed to track advanced maneuvering missiles like hypersonic glide vehicles.
Senate appropriators initially recommended adding $750,000,000 to the Pentagon’s budget for the program but the House pushed back and Congress compromised on $550,000,000.
The Pentagon originally planned in the 1990s to deploy a constellation of as many as 24 low-orbiting SBIRS Low satellites to supplement geostationary Space Based Infrared System satellites.
In 2009 the Missile Defense Agency launched two STSS satellites and the Pentagon abandoned the original SBIRS Low goal of a 24-satellite constellation as costs escalated.
The U.S. military seeks swift access to technologies developed by companies at the Catalyst Campus, including algorithms that analyze data on space objects to predict their paths.
The 2022 defense spending bill directs the Department of Defense to submit a strategy to integrate commercial satellites across its mission sets.