Altamira Announces New
Space Mission Data Processing Award Worth $8.5
Million
December 07, 2020
The U.S. Space Force’s
Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded
Altamira Technologies a prototype project
contract valued at $8.5 million for the Future
Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE)
Mission Data Processing Applications Provider
(MDPAP).
The FORGE program office,
located within the Cross-Mission Ground and
Communications Enterprise, is leading
modernization for the nation’s missile warning
ground systems for both next-generation and
legacy programs. The contract was awarded by the
Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) using an
agile program management methodology to rapidly
develop a prototype that can be transitioned
directly into operational use.
Altamira received one of
three awards to develop a prototype of the
mission data processing capabilities that will
be a key element of a new ground control system
supporting the current Space Based Infrared
System (SBIRS) and next generation Overhead
Persistent Infrared (OPIR) missile warning
satellite constellation. Following the prototype
phase, one team will be selected as the future
system’s mission data processing provider.
“Altamira looks forward to
supporting the development of this critical new
mission processing capability for the Space
Force, drawing on our extensive data analytics,
sensor phenomenology, algorithm development and
machine learning capabilities currently being
demonstrated on other programs for National Air
and Space Intelligence Agency (NASIC), National
Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), and other
customers,” said Blaine Worthington, Altamira’s
chief operating officer. “We are excited to have
the opportunity to leverage our core
capabilities and experience to further serve
this important national space mission area.”
The prototype project award
has a one-year period of performance, which will
be followed by a proposal phase and the
down-select for the operational system. Altamira
is teamed with Lockheed Martin, Stratagem,
Toyon, CACI and Spire Digital on this effort.