The Space and Missile Systems Center’s
Enterprise Ground Services project office has awarded a $20 million Phase III
Small Business Innovative Research contract — with a $100 million ceiling —
to Braxton Technologies of Colorado Springs, Colorado to support EGS satellite
operations prototyping and integration, the Air Force announced May 31.
“We are excited to embark on this
partnership which will enhance our ability to drive speed in our processes, to
deliver capabilities to support the warfighters, and develop innovative
solutions that add resiliency to fight and win in a war that extends into
space,” said Joshua Sullivan, material leader for EGS. “This contract will
allow SMC and Air Force Space Command to concentrate resources to provide the
most secure, effective, and interoperable tactical command and control
experience to mission partners across the Air Force space enterprise.”
EGS is a government-controlled platform
and underlying infrastructure that will provide ground services and enterprise
Defensive Cyber Operations to support AFSPC space missions.
Braxton Technologies’ subcontractor team is comprised of two affiliated companies, Space Ground Systems Solutions and Ingenicomm, as well as subcontractors Aurora Cybersecurity, ASRC Federal, Bluestaq, Kratos, LinQuest, Rocket Communications, and SAIC.
EGS was formed out of a mission need to
address constraints, challenges and vulnerabilities derived from traditional
isolated ground systems supporting singularly-focused missions. It is a
federated suite of services aimed at eliminating restrictions by continuously
delivering enterprise tactical command and control services and applications
that, when integrated with mission partner unique services and applications
through the use of system engineering principles, will fully enable today’s
modern warfighter.
EGS intends to respond to these challenges by bringing Air Force tactical satellite operations command and control into the 21st century by focusing on the rapid and continuous delivery of interoperable services to space warfighters. These services will eventually include all common service requirements across Air Force mission areas that are necessary to command and control satellites while maximizing the implementation of automation, cyber resiliency, and a common user experience.
Source: Air Force
By Loren Blinde
June 3, 2019
