Space Systems Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the contracting activity. The announcement referenced the missile warning radar at Cape Cod Space Force Station in connection with the effort.<\/p>\n
SciTec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker FLY. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, SciTec describes itself as having more than four decades of experience supporting national security missions with AI-enabled defense software and cloud-based, on-premise, and edge processing capabilities. Its work spans missile warning and defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, space domain awareness, remote sensing and analysis, and autonomous command and control.<\/p>\n
The contract provides for a common architecture and design intended to standardize the upgrade of ground-based radars. “SciTec is honored to support the Space Force,” said David Simenc, SciTec President. He said the effort “strengthens national defense, modernizing vital radar infrastructure and ensuring the United States maintains an operational advantage in an increasingly contested environment while minimizing total lifecycle costs to taxpayers and warfighters.”<\/p>\n
Firefly Aerospace was established in 2017 and operates engineering, manufacturing, and test facilities in central Texas. The company states it was the first commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with approximately 24-hour notice and the first to achieve a successful landing on the Moon.<\/p>\n
According to SciTec’s president, the modernization effort is meant to strengthen national defense and radar infrastructure while reducing total lifecycle costs for taxpayers and the warfighter. The company frames the digitization work as ensuring the United States maintains an operational advantage in a contested environment. Firefly noted in forward-looking statements that expected outcomes of the radar modernization effort, including the creation of a common architecture and anticipated benefits to operational readiness and lifecycle costs, are not guaranteed.<\/p>\n
The next steps for the ground-based radar digitization effort and the modernization of radar systems, including work tied to the Cape Cod Space Force Station missile warning radar, will proceed under the agreement administered by Space Systems Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Space Systems Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the contracting activity. The announcement referenced the missile warning radar at Cape Cod Space Force Station in connection with the effort. SciTec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker FLY. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, SciTec describes itself as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72921,"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-72917","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\/72917"}],"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=72917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}