Raytheon-Built Ground System for Missile Warning Supports Space Force Center

The U.S. Space Force’s Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center has begun using the Raytheon-built advanced ground system for space-based missile warning.

The Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing Application Framework is designed to integrate existing and future mission-focused applications to process, exploit and disseminate satellite data.

FORGE MDPAF can process overhead persistent infrared satellite data from the Space Based Infrared System constellation and the future Next Gen OPIR constellation and information from other civil and environmental sensors, RTX said.

As part of the ground system development, FORGE MPDAF will shift from supporting OBAC to full missile warning detection.

“FORGE MDPAF is designed to scale in a way that can handle the current volume of missile warning data and grow to support future proliferated space data processing needs,” said Sandy Brown, vice president for Mission Solutions & Payloads for Raytheon.

According to the RTX website, the ground system is resilient to cyberattacks.