0305910F Spacetrack (Space)

* Note: These sustainment efforts were not terminated but will continue in the Operations & Maintenance (O&M Appropriation) from FY97 and on.

(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification

The SPACETRACK program element represents a worldwide Space Surveillance Network (SSN) of dedicated, collateral, and contributing electro-optical, passive radio frequency (RF) and radar sensors. The SSN is tasked to provide space object cataloging and identification, satellite attack warning, timely notification to U.S. forces of satellite fly-over, space treaty monitoring, and scientific and technical intelligence gathering. The continued increase in satellite and orbital debris populations, as well as the increasing diversity in launch trajectories, non-standard orbits, and geosynchronous altitudes, necessitates continued modernization of the SSN to meet existing and future requirements and ensure their cost-effective supportability. SPACETRACK also developed the systems interfaces necessary for the command and control, targeting, and damage assessment of a potential future U.S. Anti-satellite (ASAT) system. The Image Information Processing Center and Supercomputing facility for the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS), were transferred to PE 0602601F in FY92. The resources and responsibility for completing the HAVE STARE Radar System development were transferred to SPACETRACK from an intelligence program per Congressional direction in FY93. All of these projects are Budget Activity 7 Operational Systems Development because they involve development of or modifications to operational sensor network sites.

(U) Acquisition Strategy:

Except for the Congressionally-directed Maui Space Surveillance Site facilities expansion project, Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS), and the HAVE STARE radar acquisition, the other projects in this Program Element are competetive sustaining engineering infrastructure support operations and maintenance efforts.

(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999
(U) Previous President's Budget	54,705	18,867	0	0
(U) Appropriated Value		33,867
(U) Adjustments to Appropriated Value
a. Cong Gen Reductions		-1190
b. SBIR		-826
c. Omnibus or Other Above Threshold Reprogram
d. Below Threshold Reprogramming	-371
e. Recission
(U) Adjustments to Budget Years Since FY97 PB			28,573	14,147
(U) Current Budget Submit/President's Budget	54,334	31,851	28,573	14,147

(U) Change Summary Explanation:

Funding: FY 96 reductions funded other Air Force program priorities. The Air Force budgeted continuation of the AEOS project in FY 97 and FY 98. All funds budgeted in FY 99 are to continue the HAVE STARE project.

Schedule: HAVE STARE site selection was not finalized until early FY 1996; the IOC is planned for FY00.

Technical: None.

(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	To Compl	Total Cost
(U) Other Procurement
Space Mods with Initial Spares	18,385	10,200	7,362	1,472	1,275	4,005	4,006	4,005	Cont	Cont

Related RDT&E: (U) Program Element #0305906F, NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment System of Systems.

(U) D. Schedule Profile

FY 1996

FY 1997

FY 1998

FY 1999

	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
(U) GEODSS Telescopes O&M Mods
(U) Implementation & sustainment				x
(U) AEOS telescope/facility
(U) Factory acceptance/occupancy							x
(U) HAVE STARE radar
(U) Overseas site selection decision		x
(U) Deinstall Test Site												x
(U) Reinstall at Operational Site															x

	COST ($ In Thousands)	FY 1996 Actual	FY 1997 Estimate	FY 1998 Estimate	FY 1999 Estimate	FY 2000 Estimate	FY 2001 Estimate	FY 2002 Estimate	FY 2003 Estimate	Cost to Complete	Total Cost
2295	Space Surveil Net Improvement Pgm (SSNIP)*	7,927	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Continuing

* Note: These sustainment efforts were not terminated but will continue in the Operations & Maintenance (O&M Appropriation) from FY97 and on.

(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification

Space surveillance includes space object cataloging and identification and supports the Space Defense missions of weapons support, attack warning for U.S. satellites, maintenance of space order of battle, cover-up alerts, and identification/assessment of space objects. The Space Surveillance Network Improvement Program (SSNIP) provides the sustaining engineering to correct identified deficiencies in support of those mission requirements. SSNIP also implements modifications required to reduce supportability/maintainability O&M costs. SSNIP efforts currently include reducing uncorrelated target errors, orbital debris measurement and research, communications/data link optimization, system architecture analyses and changes to the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS). This activity will continue as part of normalized sustaining engineering support services in the O&M appropriation account from FY97 and on. This project is in Budget Activity 7 Operational Systems Development because it involves a level-of-effort for sustained engineering support for development of, or modifications to, an operational SPACETRACK network site.

(U) FY 1996

(U) $4,718	Continue level-of-effort support to GEODSS and Eglin O&M cost reduction modifications.
(U) $2,109	Continue systems engineering level-of-effort to define, analyze and model operating and maintenance sustainment efforts for FY97 and on.
(U) $1,100	Continue astrodynamic standards, star catalog maintenance and deep space anomaly detection efforts to improve the accuracy of orbital element data, to improve consistency between sensors and to correct basic inadequacies of existing models for non-standard orbits.
(U) $7,927	Total

(U) FY 1997

(U) $0

Not Applicable.

(U) FY 1998

(U) $0

Not Applicable

(U) FY 1999

(U) $0

Not Applicable

(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	Total Cost
(U) Previous President's Budget	7,909	0	0	0	Continuing
(U) Appropriated Value
(U) Adjustments to Appropriated Value
a. Cong Gen Reductions
b. SBIR
c. Omnibus or Other Above Threshold Reprogram
d. Below Threshold Reprogramming	18
(U) Adjustments to Budget Years Since FY97 PB
(U) Current Budget Submit/President's Budget	7,927	0	0	0	Continuing

(U) Change Summary Explanation:

Funding: FY 96 increased due to returned funds from overpayment of miscellaneous Air Force bills.

Schedule: None.

Technical: None.

(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	To Compl	Total Cost
(U) Other Procurement
(U) Space Mods with Initial Spares	18,317	10,200	7,383	1,477	1,281	4,031	4,034	4,040	Cont	Cont

(U) D. Schedule Profile

FY 1996

FY 1997

FY 1998

FY 1999

	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
(U) GEODSS cost savings mods
(U) Implementation and sustainment					x

(U) A. Project Cost Breakdown ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999
(U) Sustaining Engineering Level-of-Effort	7,927	0	0	0
(U) Total	7,927	0	0	0

(U) B. Budget Acquisition History and Planning Information ($ in Thousands)

Not Applicable.

	COST ($ In Thousands)	FY 1996 Actual	FY 1997 Estimate	FY 1998 Estimate	FY 1999 Estimate	FY 2000 Estimate	FY 2001 Estimate	FY 2002 Estimate	FY 2003 Estimate	Cost to Complete	Total Cost
4239	Air Force Maui Optical Station	6,132	6,297	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Continuing

(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification

AMOS serves as a testbed for electro-optics and imaging technology supporting government and academic communities. It also provides operational data to Air Force Space Command: infrared signature data and compensated, imaging data used for space object identification and mission/payload assessment. Other government labs, national science foundations and other scientific agencies use of this facility are funded separately. This project is in Budget Activity 7 Operational Systems Development because it involves a level-of-effort for sustained engineering support for development of, or modifications to, an operational SPACETRACK network site.

(U) FY 1996

(U) $3,132	Continue basic AMOS facility operations, maintenance and support of upgrade integration efforts.
(U) $2,000	Continue development of an observatory control system in support of AEOS, Maui supercomputer and Hi-Class Lidar projects.
(U) $1,000	Continue development of sensors for daylight imaging and geosynchronous space object identification.
(U) $6,132	Total

(U) FY 1997

(U) $6,297

Continue support to Maui Space Surveillance Site (MSSS) R&D upgrades, development of MSSS observatory control system, and operational transition of AEOS.

(U) FY 1998

(U) $0	Not Applicable

(U) FY 1999

(U) $0	Not Applicable

(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	Total Cost
(U) Previous President's Budget	6,132	0	0	0	Cont
(U) Appropriated Value		6,500
(U) Adjustments to Appropriated Value
a. Cong Gen Reductions		-203
b. SBIR
c. Omnibus or Other Above Threshold Reprogram
d. Below Threshold Reprogramming
(U) Adjustments to Budget Years Since FY97 PB
(U) Current Budget Submit/President's Budget	6,132	6,297	0	0	Cont

(U) Change Summary Explanation:

Funding: Congress added $6,500 in FY 97.

Schedule: None.

Technical: None.

(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary ($ in Thousands)

Not Applicable.

(U) D. Schedule Profile

Not Applicable.

(U) A. Project Cost Breakdown ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999
(U) Operations and maintenance support level of effort	6,132	6,297	0	0
(U) Total	6,132	6,297	0	0

(U) B. Budget Acquisition History and Planning Information ($ in Thousands)

Not Applicable.

	COST ($ In Thousands)	FY 1996 Actual	FY 1997 Estimate	FY 1998 Estimate	FY 1999 Estimate	FY 2000 Estimate	FY 2001 Estimate	FY 2002 Estimate	FY 2003 Estimate	Cost to Complete	Total Cost
4241	Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS)	16,886	20,281	23,800	0	0	0	0	0	TBD	TBD

(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification

The Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS) is a 3.67 meter telescope addition to the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS). The AEOS program was initiated in FY91 per Congressional direction. Congress continued to appropriate funding for this project in FY93, FY94, FY95, FY96, and FY 97. The Air Force budgeted for the continuation of AEOS in FY 97 and FY 98. This project is in Budget Activity 7 Operational Systems Development because it involves sustained engineering support for development of, or modifications to, an operational SPACETRACK network site.

(U) FY 1996

(U) $9,386	Continue telescope development incremental funding.
(U) $6,500	Continue sensor instrumentation acquisitions.
(U) $1,000	Continue lab support.
(U) $16,886	Total

(U) FY 1997:

(U) $13,427	Continue telescope development incremental funding.
(U) $6,854	Continue atmospheric characterization studies, spectrograph research, development of adaptive optics system, and sensors development.
(U) $20,281	Total

(U) FY 1998

(U) $23,800	Continue development of adaptive optics, sensors, and integration of the telescope system, purchase pre-operational spares, continue development of AEOS and MSSS observatory control system, and R&D upgrades to MSSS.
(U) $23,800	Total

(U) FY 1999

(U) $0	Not Applicable

(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	Total Cost
(U) Previous President's Budget	16,886	13,427	0	0	TBD
(U) Appropriated Value		21,927
(U) Adjustments to Appropriated Value
a. Cong Gen Reductions		-820
b. SBIR		-826
c. Omnibus or Other Above Threshold Reprogram
d. Below Threshold Reprogramming
(U) Adjustments to Budget Years Since FY97 PB			23,800
(U) Current Budget Submit/President's Budget	16,886	20,281	23,800	0	TBD

(U) Change Summary Explanation:

Funding: Congress added $8,500 in FY 97. The Air Force budgeted for project continuation in FY98.

Schedule: Facility delays due to weather impacts/dome installation.

Technical: None.

(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003
Other Procurement	18,385	10,200	7,362	1,472	1,275	4,005	4,006	4,005

(U) D. Schedule Profile

FY 1996

FY 1997

FY 1998

FY 1999

	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
(U) Factory acceptance/occupancy facility							x
(U) Telescope Factory Acceptance								x

(U) A. Project Cost Breakdown ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999
(U) Directed level of effort for AEOS Maui facilities expansion	16,886	20,281	23,800	0
(U) Total	16,886	20,281	23,800	0

(U) B. Budget Acquisition History and Planning Information ($ in Thousands)

Not Applicable.

	COST ($ In Thousands)	FY 1996 Actual	FY 1997 Estimate	FY 1998 Estimate	FY 1999 Estimate	FY 2000 Estimate	FY 2001 Estimate	FY 2002 Estimate	FY 2003 Estimate	Cost to Complete	Total Cost
4279	Have Stare Radar	23,389	5,273	4,773	14,147	24,509	0	0	0	TBD	TBD

(U) A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification

The HAVE STARE (HS) radar was transferred from the intelligence budget in FY93 at the direction of Congress. The Air Force has identified a requirement for the HS system and has programmed funding in this program element to complete development and to deploy the system. HS is a high resolution X-band tracking and imaging radar with a 27 meter mechanical dish antenna. HS will be deployed as a dedicated space surveillance sensor to support the mission of space object catalog maintenance of deep space objects and mission payload assessment. HS will retain its original design features and their inherent potential to support other missions. This system is currently in the EMD phase leading to an IOC in FY00.

(U) FY 1996

(U) $4,000	Continue in-CONUS developmental and integration testing and evaluation at Vandenberg AFB, CA.
(U) $6,000	Continue incorporation of functionality and connectivity modifications required for integration with the Space Surveillance Network.
(U) $10,155	Begin site preparation at classified operational deployment location.
(U) $20,155	Total

(U) FY 1997

(U) $4,000	Continue in-CONUS developmental and integration testing and evaluation at Vandenberg AFB, CA.
(U) $1,273	Continue site preparation at classified operational deployment location.
(U) $5,273	Total

(U) FY 1998

(U) $2,400	Continue radar development incremental funding.
(U) $2,373	Continue preparations for deployment
(U) $4,773	Total

(U) FY 1999

(U) $1,000	Continue radar development incremental funding.
(U) $2,000	Continue facility preparations
(U) $10,147	Deploy and re-install program equipment
(U) $1,000	Logistics and training
(U) $14,147	Total

(U) FY 2000

(U) $8,000	Complete facility preparations.
(U) $7,000	Continue installation and checkout
(U) $3,000	Logistics and Training
(U) $6,509	Conduct system formal testing and turnover
(U) $24,509	Total

(U) B. Program Change Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	Total Cost
(U) Previous President's Budget	23,778	5,440	0	0	TBD
(U) Appropriated Value		5,440
(U) Adjustments to Appropriated Value
a. Cong Gen Reductions
b. SBIR		-167
c. Omnibus or Other Above Threshold Reprogram
d. Below Threshold Reprogramming	-389
(U) Adjustments to Budget Years Since FY97PB			4,773	14,147
(U) Current Budget Submit/President's Budget	23,389	5,273	4,773	14,147	TBD

(U) Change Summary Explanation:

Funding: FY 96 reduction for other Air Force program priorities. The Air Force budgeted to continue this project in FY 98 and FY 99.

Schedule: Project delayed due to delay in overseas site selection and previously withheld funding.

Technical: Development delayed due to withheld funding based on delayed siting decision.

(U) C. Other Program Funding Summary ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	To Compl	Total Cost
(U) None.

(U) D. Schedule Profile

FY 1996

FY 1997

FY 1998

FY 1999

	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
(U) HAVE STARE Radar Siting Decision		x
(U) HAVE STARE Deinstall Test Site												x
(U) HAVE STARE Reinstall at Operational Site															x

(U) A. Project Cost Breakdown ($ in Thousands)

	FY 1996	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999
(U) Prime Contract	12,789	3,455	2,773	10,000
(U) Site Preparation	8,500			2,000
(U) SPO Support	2,100	1,818	2,000	2,147
(U) Total	23,389	5,273	4,773	14,147

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