EO/IR Weather System Dev
Abstract
In compliance with 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) Memo 062-17, dated 20 Jun 2017, EWS will provide global Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) coverage to meet Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) EO/IR Gaps 1) Cloud Characterization (CC) and 2) Theatre Weather Imagery (TWI), and succeed the aging Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) constellation. Without the CC and TWI data, Space Force production of global predictive weather data will be severely impacted, affecting daily air operations and intelligence gathering for strategic mission planning, especially around the contested environment. Based on SBEM Capability Assessment and Strategy Review (CASR) in April 2019, the current EWS acquisition strategy focuses on a distributed LEO architecture, for scalability and increased operational resilience. The Space Force will pursue prototyping of latest industry capabilities for simplified sensor designs, while meeting CC and TWI requirements and data latencies in a distributed architecture. Space acquisition must respond with speed and agility to emerging adversary threats. Space Systems Command (SSC) has transformed the organization and implementation of space acquisition to an enterprise approach, maximizing innovation and resiliency, leveraging international, commercial, and mission partnerships, and managing program/project priorities according to an integrated unclassified/classified enterprise space architecture. Expanding the appropriate acquisition authorities and contract mechanisms to deliver capability sooner, SSC will strategically execute experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction, and other efforts to develop new or repurpose existing capabilities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver EWS for weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF. In FY 2021 $0.00 was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2022 $0.00 is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 643730_1203710SF_4_3620F_PB_2023
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