Ground Segment & Operations

A ground-based early warning radar array at dusk on an Arctic tundra ridge with glowing conduits running to a buried operations block

Raytheon reopens the code inside America’s missile warning radars

The Ground-Based Radar Digitization program swaps locked radar electronics for an open architecture the service can patch and upgrade.

A robot boat navigates without satellites for Britain’s defense ministry

Voyant showed the UK Ministry of Defence that an autonomous vessel can keep its bearings when satellite navigation is denied.

NASA gives Omitron $23.5M to keep its fleet clear of debris

A $23.5M five-year award puts Omitron in charge of conjunction screening for NASA's uncrewed fleet, human spaceflight and NOAA's Office of Space Commerce.

Space Force reopens antenna bidding after a $1.7B cancellation

Space Systems Command restarts a shelved antenna program, betting on commercial phased arrays and ground-segment-as-a-service.

Ground Segment & Operations

The missile-tracking ground network needs a security-first software core

The Space Development Agency is shopping for a contractor to own the software layer beneath its missile-warning ground segment.

Ground Segment & Operations

SDA asks industry to build the ground side of missile tracking

The Space Development Agency is taking proposals for the worldwide ground entry points that will move missile-warning data off its…

Ground Segment & Operations

A Pentagon task force is sending drone defenses to Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral will get new counter-drone gear from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 within weeks as launch traffic climbs.

Ground Segment & Operations

New task orders steer $114M into GPS ground work for M-Code

Lockheed Martin has won $114M in task orders to prepare the GPS ground network for IIIF satellites and tougher jamming.

Ground Segment & Operations

GPS ground control resets to prototypes after the $6.27B OCX collapse

Space Systems Command wants competing prototypes for a new GPS command-and-control segment, months after scrapping Raytheon's $6.27B OCX effort.

Ground Segment & Operations