SATELLITE 2026 — The Space Force intends to begin issuing first contracts next month for its new(ish) Kronos project designed to modernize its operational command and control (C2) and battle management software for space domain awareness, according to a spokesperson for Space Systems Command (SSC).
Planning for Kronos was quietly initiated last May, when SSC revamped its Space Command and Control program — separating Kronos out into a separate effort to run alongside the long-troubled Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS) project, which is meant to modernize the software used to manage and process data from the Space Surveillance Network of radars and telescopes used to monitor the heavens.
ATLAS is aimed at providing the baseline capabilities…
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Source breakingdefense.com
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