Sensor Service Life Extension Program
Abstract
In FY 2022, PE 1203940F, Space Situation Awareness Operations, Project 67A017, Sensor Service Life Extension Program efforts were transferred to Project 673940, Space Data Fusion to more accurately describe the work being performed. Service Life Extension Programs (SLEPs) are efforts to upgrade, operationalize and extend the life of operational SSA sensors. These SLEPs extend the serviceable life of assets and maintain critical capability by replacing aging and increasingly unsustainable components with modern and sustainable equipment. In addition, the SLEPs themselves may be designed to increase capabilities not currently realized. As the need arises in the execution year, funds in this project may be used to begin SLEPs on additional efforts. These efforts may include prototyping and technology demonstrations. The Global Sensor Watch (GSW) effort provides an integrated, end-to-end SDA tip & cue capability that implements a survivable architecture providing overlapping, assured, and viable surveillance options for executing event response, SDA data processing at multiple classification levels, and automated, worldwide, cross-sensor tipping & cueing. Efforts directly enable support for Space Command & Control (C2) by developing & deploying advanced software algorithms to identify, acquire, characterize, and maintain custody of both space objects of interest and new foreign launches; developing & deploying advanced data analytics, machine learning, & artificial intelligence capabilities for rapid indication & warning; enhancing space environmental monitoring solutions; integrating and optimizing access to coalition, commercial, academic, intelligence community (IC) & Missile Defense Agency sensors to better support the broader space enterprise; supporting US Space Command (USSPACECOM) operations and training exercises; leading trials, testing and training campaigns to test & optimize capabilities in support of the broader space kill chain; enhancing sensor performance to close the solar exclusion gap by leveraging modern technology and commercial & IC sensors for greater space domain coverage; and improving legacy communication paths to enable a more complete space enterprise capability. The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) provides rapid un-cued search, detection and tracking of dim objects in deep space, collecting data on all viewable objects in the Indio-Pacific region. As a combined program with Australia's Department of Defense, per the 2013 US Secretary of Defense (USSECDEF) and the Australian Defence Minister (AUSMINDEF) SST Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), SST improves detection and characterization of friendly and enemy military space activities; improves orbital safety of flight during maneuver, separation, conjunction assessment, and proximity operations; and improves support to defensive and offensive counterspace operations. 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, to increase 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 the 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. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 67A017_1203940SF_7_3620F_PB_2023
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- Root: Space Situation Awareness Operations
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