{"id":55762,"date":"2022-03-17T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-space-force-validates-design-maturity-of-boeings-protected-tactical-satcom-prototype\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T12:35:06","slug":"us-space-force-validates-design-maturity-of-boeings-protected-tactical-satcom-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-space-force-validates-design-maturity-of-boeings-protected-tactical-satcom-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"US Space Force Validates Design Maturity of Boeing\u2019s Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Boeing<\/strong>  said on March 16 that U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) recently validated the design maturity of the company\u2019s Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) satellite in a critical design review (CDR).<\/p>\n

In February and March of 2020, SSC\u2019s predecessor \u2014 the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) \u2014 awarded PTS-P contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing. In April last year, Space Force chose Northrop Grumman and Boeing to move forward in the PTS-P competition. In addition, in 2020, SMC awarded Raytheon and L3Harris contracts to develop Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) capable modems under a $500 million-ceiling, Indefinite-Delivery\/Indefinite-Quantity contract.<\/p>\n

In a Boeing-issued statement on March 16,  Lt. Col. Ryan Rose, SSC\u2019s tactical SATCOM division chief, said that the PTS-P program has made \u201cgreat progress\u201d and that SSC has asked \u201call industry partners to move fast \u2014 to build, iterate, demonstrate, and improve performance, so we can deploy much faster than we typically would.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis design review demonstrates we\u2019re on track to deliver new communication capabilities to the warfighter,\u201d she said of the SSC CDR of the Boeing blueprint.<\/p>\n

Boeing said that its PTS-P \u201cfeatures an on-board processor of PTW,\u201d a processor that provides military forces with theater resistance to jamming and with network routing \u201cthat exceeds objective requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cScheduled for on-orbit demonstration after a 2024 launch, the prototype payload showcases PTS-P\u2019s improved stand-off distance performance, reduced latency, and other mission-enabling capabilities that enable the warfighter in a modern battlefield,\u201d per Boeing. \u201cHost vehicle integration and testing will begin next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boeing\u2019s Millenium Space Systems subsidiary is aiding the rapid prototyping and demonstrations segments of PTS-P.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, the Boeing team has completed several capability demonstrations and design reviews, including validating interoperability with government-furnished Protected Anti-Jam Tactical SATCOM (PATS) hardware and software components,\u201d Boeing said on March 16.<\/p>\n

By press time on March 16, SSC had not responded to a query on when the CDRS for the Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman PTS-P designs are scheduled.<\/p>\n

The PATS program has used rapid prototyping\/middle-tier acquisition authority, granted by Congress in Section 804 of the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. PATS has also benefited from collaboration with the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), an incubator for space innovation efforts through rapid prototyping. Funded through DoD Other Transaction Authority (OTA), SpEC has more than 400 members.<\/p>\n

Section 804 and SpeC have enabled competitive prototyping for PATS \u201cearly in the program,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cIt\u2019s a prototyping-centric approach that builds out the best solutions, while getting capabilities on-orbit years ahead of traditional contracting and development timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article was first published by Via Satellite sister outlet Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boeing  said on March 16 that U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) recently validated the design maturity of the company\u2019s Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype (PTS-P) satellite in a critical design review (CDR). In February and March of 2020, SSC\u2019s predecessor \u2014 the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) \u2014 awarded PTS-P contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49698,"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-55762","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\/55762"}],"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=55762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}