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Space Systems Command Looks for Industry Capacity to Supply PTES Joint Hub Spares

Space Systems Command Looks for Industry Capacity to Supply PTES Joint Hub Spares
Pictured are ULA CEO Tory Bruno and Space Force Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, the head of Space Systems Command, at a test firing last week in Promontory, Utah of the Northrop Grumman GEM-63XL motor for the ULA Vulcan Centaur rocket (ULA Photo)

U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) wants to hear from companies on their capacity to provide joint hub (JH) hardware spares for the future Protected Tactical Enterprise System (PTES), which Boeing [BA] is developing. PTES is to provide military forces with a joint ground platform for protected communications through the Boeing Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite constellation, commercial satellites and future Space Force Protected Tactical Satellites running the Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW), an advanced beam-forming technology to provide anti-jam…

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