Spacelift Range System (SPACE)

Abstract

The Eastern Range (ER) at Patrick Air Force Base (AFB)/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, and the Western Range (WR) at Vandenberg AFB, CA, make up the Spacelift Range System (SLRS), also known as the Launch and Test Range System (LTRS). The ER and WR provide tracking, telemetry, communications, flight safety, and other capabilities to enable: national security, civil, and commercial space launches; ballistic missile and missile defense test launches; and aeronautical and guided weapons tests. Decreasing reliability of aging range systems leads to higher operations and maintenance costs and increased risk of launch delays. The AF will address range deficiencies in FY14 via multiple contracts, including the LTRS Integrated Support Contract (LISC), a command destruct modernization contract, small business set-aside contracts for ER and WR network modernization, and the Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) Contract. As a follow-on to the Spacelift Range System Contract (SLRSC) which runs through FY13, the AF will award LISC as a consolidated sustainment, operations, and maintenance contract in FY14. LISC will provide interface systems engineering, technical studies, and requirements analysis to integrate future maintenance and sustainment upgrades with modernization efforts. Also, the separate Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) contract supporting the program management office will expand efforts to provide systems engineering and integration support for future modernization efforts, in terms of system baselines,configurations, and architectures. These efforts will comply with OSD policies and standards for interface with IT systems. In addition to these system upgrades, the Standard Space Trainer program will provide a complementary training application for the Spacelift Ranges, incorporating Range Modernization functionality, as part of the common platform for all space system operational training. All of these upgrades to fielded systems at operating ranges are categorized as Budget Activity 7, Operational Systems Development.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0305182F_7_3600_PB_2014
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Ballistic Missiles
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Engineering
• Guided Weapons
• Instrumentation
• Maintenance
• Maintenance Costs
• National Security
• Program Management
• Small Business
• Space Systems
• System Software
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Space