Lockheed Martin won a $ 1 billion contract to exploit and maintain the SBIRS

Lockheed Martin is delighted to have received a $ 1 billion contract that will exploit and maintain ground control systems of the infrared space or floor control centers. The US spatial force announced the contract on June 4th. SBIRS is a component of the DOD missile warning network designed to detect ballistic missile launches.

The system has two infrared sensors in a very elliptical orbit and five satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Lockheed Martin has been the main entrepreneur of SBIRS since the mid-1990s. The fifth satellite of the system launched on May 18 and the sixth and final satellite SBIRS is currently in production and should be launched in 2022.

The $ 1 billion contract is a five-year single source contract for the operations and maintenance of the Buckley Air Force Base Control Center in Colorado. The network also has operating centers in Peterson Air Force Base and Greeley Air National Guard Station. Lockheed Martin officials say the contract covers the management of the existing land systems and upgrades required to exploit the last two constellation satellites.

The spatial force is currently considering transmitting to a new missile warning satellite network known as the generation of new generation infrared and a new ground control system called future campground evolution in an operational way. Lockheed Martin is contracted to produce a new generation persistent infrared geosynchronous satellite trio.

The first of the new satellites should be launched in 2025. The new Lockheed Martin $ 1 billion market funds work to maintain and maintain the infrastructure for the future control systems of land evolution in an operational way operational and to deploy the last two network satellites for the original constellation.