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Maturity of Design of Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype Validated in Review, Boeing Says

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022

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Maturity of Design of Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype Validated in Review, Boeing Says

Boeing [BA] said on March 16 that U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) recently validated the design maturity of the company's Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype (PTS-P) satellite in a critical design review (CDR). SSC said on March 17 that the command and Boeing completed the CDR last Dec. 17. In February and March of 2020, SSC's predecessor--the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)--awarded PTS-P contracts to Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Boeing (Defense Daily, Feb. 26, 2021). On March…

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