{"id":46968,"date":"2026-05-18T21:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-force-awards-northrop-grumman-398-million-for-enhanced-pts-p\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:17:24","slug":"space-force-awards-northrop-grumman-398-million-for-enhanced-pts-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-force-awards-northrop-grumman-398-million-for-enhanced-pts-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Awards Northrop Grumman $398 Million For Enhanced PTS-P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> [NOC] a $398 million firm-fixed price contract to develop and build an Enhanced Protected Tactical Satellite Communications-Prototype (PTS-P) for launch in fiscal 2030 or later, SSC said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Northrop Grumman and <strong>Boeing<\/strong> won contracts for the baseline anti-jam PTS-P, but launches, which were to start in 2024, have yet to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Enhanced PTS-P is an added Middle Tier of Acquisition rapid prototyping effort to provide \u201cincremental capability\u201d and accelerate \u201cinitial operational capability-like delivery by two years with purpose-built \u2018hub in space\u2019 satellites utilizing full signal processing and switching capability allowing direct connectivity between users,\u201d according to the Space Force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prototype is designed to improve satellite communications performance in the presence of jamming through advanced antennas and space-based processing of the Protected Tactical Waveform, or PTW,\u201d SSC said on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>PTS is the follow-on to Lockheed Martin\u2019s [LMT] Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite constellation. The program includes PTS-P, PTS-Global (PTS-G), and PTS-Resilient (PTS-R) payloads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLower complexity\u201d PTS-G geosynchronous orbit satellites in Ka-band and X-band are to fill a gap between the \u201cmore focused\u201d PTS-R and the \u201cbroadly-available but also the lower assured access capabilities provided by existing\/emerging milsatcom and commercial services,\u201d the Space Force has said.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, SSC said that it had awarded up to $4 billion in PTS-G development contracts to Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Viasat, Astranis, and Intelsat General \u2014 the U.S. division of Luxembourg\u2019s SES .<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Space Force decided to delay the start of PTS-R engineering and manufacturing development until fiscal 2028 and to accelerate PTS-P as an interim toward fielding PTS-R.<\/p>\n<p>The service requested about $449 million for PTS in fiscal 2027, including $150 million for PTS-G.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $398 million firm-fixed price contract to develop and build an Enhanced Protected Tactical Satellite Communications-Prototype (PTS-P) for launch in fiscal 2030 or later, SSC said on Friday. In 2021, Northrop Grumman and Boeing won contracts for the baseline anti-jam PTS-P, but launches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}