Space Systems Command

But if True Anomaly's prototype succeeds, the company could receive more work.

Space Systems Command says successful prototypes have a path into its RG surveillance satellite system, and both companies must submit plans for scaling their spacecraft into a full constellation.

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The raise follows two government contract actions this year.

The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command selected Impulse's Helios spacecraft for the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 program.

Impulse says that makes it the first upper stage developer awarded a prime position in the program.

Space Systems Command's Space Safari Office also awarded Impulse a $28 million contract extension.

It supports the Victus-SALO-2 and Victus-SALO-3 missions and builds on the company's existing MIRA awards.

Impulse's lineup includes the MIRA maneuvering spacecraft, the Helios kickstage, and the Caravan rideshare program.

2.0?

Space Immense Systems Center, it's now Space Systems Command, right? And so there's an evolution naturally there.

But even the way we are approaching acquisitions is changing.

And now we have the new PAE structure.

Then we have Colonel Timothy Trimello, who leads the, well, I'm going to say his title.

His title is Director of Commercial Space Office, Space Systems Command, where he oversees the integration of commercial capabilities across the U.S. Space Force mission areas and helps advance the buy before build approach to closing critical capability gaps.

David Myers, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategy at Applied Aerospace and Defense.

David leads that strategy and product commercialization for Applied Aerospace and Defense, bringing senior leadership experience across multiple space and defense companies and current service as chair of the Space Supply Chain Council.

So does the government have enough opportunity to engage? And are you, well, two questions.

Are you looking at, first of all, where regional, you in your office, commercial office, are you looking at where regional supply might be coming from? Is the Northeast region in your radar? And are you, Watching the overall supply chain as part of your your decision-making Yeah,

it's a good it's a good question first off You know, we're looking at every state in the US every region of the US for our supply chains At the I guess to start at the end of the day Space Systems Command where I work and the Space Force what we we buy is capability.

We buy typically end-to-end systems or systems of systems that provide a capability and end result to the warfighter, to the joint force.

The US Space Force is starting work on a new ground control architecture for its future GPS constellation, applying lessons from the 6.27 billion OCX program that the Pentagon canceled earlier this year after 15 years of development.

Space Systems Command is preparing a prototype competition for GPS Gen 4 Ground, the command and control segment of a broader next generation GPS architecture now being defined by the service.

A coming soon notice posted September 4th through the Space Enterprise Consortium says the Space Systems Command is preparing a prototype competition for GPS Gen 4 Ground.

The notice provides an early look at how the Space Force intends to approach GPS ground modernization after OCX, the Raytheon-developed system that became one of the Pentagon's most troubled software acquisition programs.

Boo.

I just I don't know.

It seems like a bridge too far.

Space Systems Command also wants greater automation, sorry, updated operator interfaces and streamlined workflows to reduce the manpower needed to operate the Constellation.