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ATLAS on Track to Replace SPADOC Next Year, U.S. Space Force Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, July 30th, 2021

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ATLAS on Track to Replace SPADOC Next Year, U.S. Space Force Says

In March last year, a Digital Directorate team at Peterson AFB, Colo., used an emulation tech refresh process to refresh the space domain awareness catalog for the Space Defense Operations Center (U.S. Air Force graphic)

The U.S. Space Force's (USSF) ATLAS is on track to be operational by the spring of next year, as the service develops higher classification levels for the Unified Data Library (UDL) that will be a significant part of the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and the DoD Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) effort, a top Space Force official said this week. Space Force expects L3Harris Technologies' [LHX] ATLAS to lead to a dramatic increase in…

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