Air Force greenlights SBIRS ground system

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The Air Force has accepted Lockheed Martin’s upgraded ground system for Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) missile warning satellites.

“The Block 10 system includes upgrades like faster collection times, improved threat detections and improved target tracking and infrared information to see dimmer events faster,” according to a Lockheed Martin news release.

“Operational Acceptance of the SBIRS ground system consolidates the Air Force’s command and control of legacy Defense Support Program satellites, SBIRS geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads into the same ground system,” Lockheed Martin said. “SBIRS Block 10 also improves cueing data for missile defense systems and allows for command, control and mission planning of taskable sensors, as well as real-time and offline raw sensor data processing for technical intelligence used by the intelligence community.”…

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