[SatNews] A new contract mod extends the prototype contract for this Company...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded Integral Systems a $1.7 million contract modification to its Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) contract. The contract modification establishes a new contract line to extend the Company's integration of the Blue Force Server prototype on the CCS-C system to the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system. Under the terms of the contract, Integral Systems will expand the current prototype Space Operations Center (SOC) 31 to support additional WGS payload telemetry and WGS spacecraft. The modification also funds a full backup system that will be installed into SOC-32. Interim Contractor Support will provide the Air Force with experts from Integral Systems during the implementation phase.

The CCS-C contract, first awarded in early 2002, enables a unified Command and Control (C2) capability for the 50th Space Wing's complete family of MILSATCOM programs. By employing standards-based systems and an open architecture approach, the 50th Space Wing efficiently and cost-effectively supports future satellite platforms and programs. CCS-C is currently configured to support MILSATCOM satellites across four systems: the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), Milstar; Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and the AEHF system. CCS-C consists of high-specification, commercially-available computer servers and workstations running commercially-available TT&C software packages on a local area network-based client/server architecture. CCS-C products are operational at the Air Education and Training Command, 533rd Training Squadron at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., the 14th Air Force, 50th Space Wing and the 3rd and 4th Space Operations Squadrons at Schriever AFB, Colo.