The NDAA instructed Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli to detail a UDL integration plan, following criticism from the Government Accountability Office, as well as to explain the Space Force's process "to regularly identify and evaluate commercial space situational awareness capabilities."
"[P]roduct development has been slower than anticipated, and the projected date to decommission SPADOC continues to extend further to late FY24, a delay of more than two years from the original timeline," according to the 2023 Annual Report of the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its "old clunker" SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
At the moment it is unclear when Space Force and Space Command actually will decommission CAVEnet, 2000s-era tech that analysts use for highly accurate and classified tracking of space objects.