The Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program seeks to build a government-owned ground system for missile warning satellite command and control.

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BAE Systems will lead the second phase of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) command and control (C2) ground system program

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The company is building two satellites for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) program

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The procurement of massive satellites for missile detection is moving forward despite shift to LEO systems

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The latest award brings the total value of Lockheed Martin’s contract for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared satellite program to $8.2 billion

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Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics, and Omni Federal each won $9.7 million contracts from the U.S. Space Force to develop competing next-generation ground systems. 

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Booz Allen Hamilton won a seven-year, $630 million contract from the U.S. Space Force for systems engineering and integration of satellite systems

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The Government Accountability Office in its annual assessment of Pentagon procurements provided an update on the Space Force’s satellite programs and found a few red flags.

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A U.S. missile-warning satellite completed a major review, keeping the spacecraft on track for launch in 2028.

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The Pentagon plans to end procurements of very large geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) infrared satellites and transition to a proliferated architecture in lower orbits

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SciTec, a small business based in Princeton, New Jersey, won a $272 million contract to develop software to analyze data collected by the U.S. military’s early-warning infrared satellites. 

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Rocket Lab's solar power business will supply solar cells for three missile-warning satellites that Lockheed Martin is building for the U.S. Space Force.

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Lockheed Martin announced March 1 it has selected Raytheon Technologies to supply a second payload for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) geosynchronous satellites.

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The Space Force is providing Congress overly optimistic forecasts of its planned procurement of missile-warning satellites, GAO said in a new report.

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Congress should fully support the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellite program

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A new sensor payload developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace to detect missile launches has passed a critical design review.

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The Space Force wants an open platform to process and distribute data from missile-warning satellites so it's less dependent on the current prime contractor Lockheed Martin.

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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $4.9 billion contract for the production of three geosynchronous Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared satellites.

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Lockheed Martin will analyze the risks in the process of migrating a SBIRS geosynchronous satellite to the next-generation Enterprise Ground Services.

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The Space and Missile Systems Center needs a digital workflow system for the development of classified early-warning and communications satellites.

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GAO in its annual assessment of DoD acquisition programs says Next-Gen OPIR “faces multiple challenges."

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Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team designed competing sensor payloads for the Next-Gen OPIR geosynchronous satellites.

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The contract is for two Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared missile warning satellites to be deployed in polar orbits.

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The Wide Field of View satellite is scheduled to launch in August 2021.

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