WASHINGTON — The Space Force is using a software platform developed by Anduril Industries to integrate data from a decades-old network of space surveillance sensors.
DoD announced July 12 that Anduril won an $8 million contract extension to field its mesh networking software at Space Surveillance Network sites through December 2024. The software autonomously analyzes data from sensors and provides an integrated picture.
The SSN is a set of sensors dispersed across multiple sites worldwide first deployed within the late Fifties to offer early warnings of ballistic missile launches.
The network has a combination of conventional radars, phased-array radars and telescopes for missile detection, and to trace satellites and space debris.
Making a mesh network
The Space Force up to now has awarded Anduril $10.5 million in Small Business Innovation Research contracts for the corporate’s Lattice networking software that autonomously parses and integrates data from third-party sensors and data sources.
Anduril, a defense technology startup founded in 2017, said it adapted the Lattice software for the space surveillance network and “transformed SSN sites from a legacy system of communication to a resilient, high speed and integrated operational mesh network.”
The Lattice mesh networking technology has been utilized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to construct a “virtual wall” along the U.S. border with Mexico.
The corporate last yr won an almost $1 billion contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to make use of the Lattice platform to detect and track drone threats.
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