Lockheed martin and alaska aerospace partner for gmd development and sustainment contract alaska aerospace to provide responsive operations and sustainment support at. The groundbased midcourse defense gmd system is the united states only operationally deployed missile defense program capable of. The growing importance of sustaining software for the dod. Missile defense agencys groundbased midcourse defense. Software sustainment is growing in importance as the inventory of dod systems continues to age and greater emphasis is placed on efficiency and productivity in defense spending. Comprehensive requirements to support, maintain and operate the software. Request for proposal groundbased midcourse defense. The development and sustainment contract dsc will continue with the boeing company to q1 fy2024 to build the 20 gbis and 20 silos with supporting test, engineering, software, and performance. Battle command and sustainment support system bcs3 formerly combat service support control system csscs the bcs3 supports the warfighting c2 and battle management process by rapidly. Lockheed martin and alaska aerospace partner for gmd. Groundbased midcourse defense gmd program overview.
Software sustainment comprehensive requirements to support, maintain and operate the software capabilities of a system. According to a fact sheet from the office of the under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, an undefinitized contract action uca. Elbit systems of america is an faa certified repair station for radio, airframe, power plant, accessories and instrument ratings. Matt and george deployed to support our post production software support requirement and have done. In addition to the merlin and metro, we support a variety of aircraft. This contract sustainment support guide cssg is intended to be used by usaf personnel involved in life cycle management processes to help reduce and control cost and risk when procuring products or services. Support hardware and software fielding as well as gm system upgrades. Peter anderson, both transport managment coordinators with the 304th movement control team, take notes during a brief on the operation of the portable deployment kit ii. To that end, boeing integrated defense systems global services and support division in st. Includes processes, procedures, people, material and information required to support, maintain and operate the software aspects of a system sei definition. The cssg provides recommendations based on best practices bps that are mapped to air force product support elements. In part 1 of this series, i summarized key software sustainment challenges facing the dod.