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  • Enhanced Polar System

    MissionThe Enhanced Polar System (EPS) represents an evolution of requirements for protected extremely high frequency (EHF) satellite communications in the North Polar Region. EPS is the next-generation SATCOM system that will replace the current Interim Polar System (IPS) and serve as a polar

  • Military GPS User Equipment

    MISSION MGUE is a joint service program developed to modernize military GPS receivers, thereby delivering upgraded capabilities that allow for accurate and reliable Positioning, Navigation, and Timing to US and Allies where current receiver performance  might be compromised or unavailable.

  • GPS Operational Control Segment

    MISSIONOCS provides Command and Control (C2) and Launch/Early Orbit, Anomaly, Resolution and Disposal Operations (LADO) capabilities for the Block II satellites. OCS also enables Selective Availability/Anti-Spoof Module (SAASM) capability in GPS User Equipment, as well as contingency recovery

  • GPS IIF

    MISSION Deliver sustained, reliable GPS capabilities to America’s warfighters, our allies and civil users.  GPS provides positioning, navigation and timing service to civil and military users worldwide.  BACKGROUND In 1996, the GPS IIF contract was awarded to The Boeing Company for the development

  • Infrared Satellites

    The IS program is the follow-on capability to the highly successful Defense Support Program. DSP has provided early warning for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches for more than 30 years. The goal is to provide a seamless transition from DSP to IS and meet the jointly defined requirements of

  • GPS IIR/IIR-M

    MISSION Deliver sustained, reliable GPS capabilities to America’s warfighters, our allies and civil users.  GPS provides positioning, navigation and timing service to civil and military users worldwide  BACKGROUND In 1989, the GPS IIR contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin for the development and

  • GPS III

     MISSION Deliver sustained, reliable GPS capabilities to America’s warfighters, our allies and civil users. GPS provides positioning, navigation and timing service to civil and military users worldwide.   BACKGROUNDIn May 2008, the first GPS III increment contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin for

  • Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)

    Mission WGS provides flexible, high-capacity communications for the Nation's warfighters through procurement and operation of the satellite constellation and the associated control systems. WGS provides worldwide flexible, high data rate and long haul communications for marines, soldiers, sailors,

  • 61st Air Base Group

    The 61st Air Base Group is the host unit at Los Angeles Air Force Base. It provides medical, civil engineering, communications, chaplain, security, logistics, personnel, readiness, and quality-of-life services to the Space and Missile Systems Center and many other Department of Defense units in the

  • National Security Space Launch

    OverviewThe Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate of the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, manages the National Security Space Launch program (NSSL, formerly the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle or EELV) program.  The program provides the United States

 

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