*The details of this project are still classified and in order to maintain my “TS, SCI” clearance, I am restricted to only posting information that is already made public.
I was part of a 3 designer team supporting the Lockheed Martin “Combined Orbital Operations, Logistics, and Resiliency (COOLR)” project from May 2022 to Jan. 2023. The below is directly taken from the contract language, which can be found on GOVTRIBE’s website:
The Government requires life cycle logistics support for the Protected Strategic Military Satellite Communications: Milstar, Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III and Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF).
SERVICES REQUIRED OVERVIEW
The COOLR efforts include, but are not limited to:
– Bus and payload software/hardware sustaining engineering
– Software and database sustainment
– Ground hardware sustainment
– On-orbit satellite operations and sustainment support
– Infrastructure support
– Systems engineering, integration and test (SEIT)
– Operational resiliency (space-related and system)
– Cybersecurity resiliency (defensive cybersecurity)
– Operations assurance
– AEHF/Milstar technical data services
Supporting the sustainment of the DSCS III, Milstar and AEHF systems requires detailed knowledge of DSCS III, Milstar and AEHF satellite bus and payloads design, operations, system interfaces, functional interfaces and terminal interoperability. Milstar and AEHF are operated as one or more Protected Strategic Military Satellite Communications constellations, requiring in-depth knowledge of both systems to seamlessly integrate future satellites into a single integrated operational enterprise while maintaining all operational capabilities.
