The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), in partnership with Golden Dome for America, is accelerating delivery of resilient, multi-domain connectivity for the Joint Force through the establishment of a Mission Operations Center (MOC) for the Space Data Network Backbone (SDN-B) program, SSC announced November 5.
Golden Dome for America is the Department of War’s layered homeland defense initiative, integrating sensors, data, command-and-control, and defensive systems across domains to detect, track, and defeat advanced missile and aerial threats.
The MOC will bring together mission integration, network operations, and data transport management across a growing multi-vendor architecture, helping SSC’s Space-Based Sensing and Targeting (SBST) portfolio field an operationally integrated capability.
As the central integration hub for orchestrating mission systems across multiple constellations and providers, the MOC strengthens the foundation for secure, resilient, high-capacity connectivity support for warfighters across air, land, sea and space domains.
The effort builds on the multi-vendor acquisition strategy demonstrated under the SBST portfolio’s prior Delivery Order 2 and Delivery Order 3 work with Amazon LEO for Government, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space Systems. These efforts are advancing SSC’s broader approach to resilient, open-architecture capability delivery.
To support this next phase, SSC awarded a competitive Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity contract to Viasat, Inc., with a maximum ceiling of $450 million and an initial task order of $115 million to design, field, and scale the MOC. In this role, Viasat, Inc. will serve as the network and mission system integration partner as SSC expands its open-architecture ecosystem across multiple space-segment providers.
This integrated framework is designed to establish a more robust and resilient communications backbone, reduce single points of failure and improve the Space Force’s ability to deliver secure data transport and mission connectivity at speed and scale.
“Establishing this Mission Operations Center is a crucial step in maturing our Space Data Network into a fully operational, multi-vendor capability,” said Space Force Lt. Col. Alexa Eggert, materiel leader for the SBST SDN Backbone program.
Source: SSC
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