Resilient Missile Warning Missile Tracking - Integrated Ground Segment

Resilient Missile Warning Missile Tracking - Integrated Ground Segment, is a collaborative effort between the United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Development Agency (SDA), and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to deliver Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) capabilities in support of a proliferated space architecture. The program aims to pivot the Department of the Air Force's legacy missile warning force design to a more resilient multi-orbit approach to counter advanced missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, and fractional orbital bombardment threats. Specifically, the program seeks to deploy space assets in multiple epochs to allow for incremental capability delivery and ensure competition throughout the program's lifecycle. The funding for FY 2024 supports space segment long-lead parts purchases, space vehicle bus and main mission payload assembly, integration and test, early on-orbit initialization studies for up to three vendors, ground segment mission data processing application development, command and control software and facilities build, and ground entry point site construction.

The program also aims to develop and implement a system-of-systems integration strategy across MW/MT/MD constellations supporting LEO, MEO, and GEO/Polar orbit regimes. This includes efforts such as developing mission data processing, operations and integration of space vehicles into the operations center for command and control at the Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) lab, acquiring, building, installing, testing, and operating ground-based antennas for uplink/downlink of commands and mission data. Additionally, the program will test, assess, and validate sensor performance on the ground and on-orbit to ensure track data is integrated by Program of Record (PoR) data and fusion operational programs. The program also includes efforts to mature integrated digital models to support SSC's role as the mission area integrator. These efforts are aimed at delivering capabilities sooner by strategically executing experimentation, prototyping, risk reduction activities while leveraging international, commercial partnerships.

In summary, Program PE 1206448SF aims to enhance the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) by expanding the existing architecture to meet Command and Control (C2), Mission Data Processing (MDP), Enterprise Integration, Support Operations requirements for Tranche 1 (T1) Tracking Layer and Tranche 2 (T2) Tracking Layer. It also seeks to continue development of Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites through spiral development to deliver capabilities incrementally. The program will provide sensitivity to detect emerging threats accurately track maneuvering targets while delivering data within required latency to close the kill-chain solution. The funding for FY 2024 will support ground segment development required to support launches starting in FY 2025 and capability demonstration starting in FY 2026.