This month, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said that it awarded Kratos [KTOS] a contract worth up to $579 million for the control of military communications satellites under the Command-and-Control System Consolidated (CCS-C) Sustainment and Resiliency (C-SAR) effort.
Military communications satellites included in C-SAR include Boeing‘s [BA] Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS), and the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III, Military Strategic and Tactical Relay (Milstar). and Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites.
“Other MILSATCOM satellite families or programs, and network modifications and upgrades may be included in the future,” SSC said in a Nov 15 business notice. “The C-SAR…effort will include program management, software maintenance, baseline configuration and data management, regression testing and evaluation for all baseline upgrades, cybersecurity and processing of information assurance activities for network certification and accreditation, and conducting feasibility studies.”
Under the contract, Kratos is to finish work for Space Force and U.S. Space Command by May 30, 2032.
“This contract will sustain and provide post-production development for the current CCS-C system for telemetry, tracking and commanding of current and future military communication satellites,” SSC said in a DoD contract announcement on Nov. 6. “Work will primarily be performed at Schriever Space Force Base (SFB), Colo.; Vandenberg SFB, Calif.; and Peterson SFB, Colo.”