A future challenge for the R2C2 program will be figuring out how it fits under the Pentagon's overarching Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) efforts, Kelly Hammett, director of the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, told Breaking Defense.
“These albatrosses [have been] dragging the department down for decades. This is the year we are going to get these programs delivered," said Frank Calvelli, space acquisition head.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
"Progress has not been as great as we wanted it to be" in the Space Force's effort to reduce the number of disparate satellite ground control centers, according to Clare Leon, head of Space Systems Command's (SSC) Space Systems Integration Office (SSIO).
Instead of one mega-system to rule them all, the Enterprise Ground System (EGS) is building common components, from messaging standards to shared servers.