Software sustainment comprehensive requirements to support, maintain and operate the software capabilities of a system. The gmd program provides defense against ballistic missile threats. Missile defense agency in the design, development, integration, test and sustainment of all gmd components. Missile defense agencys groundbased midcourse defense. The software engineering center sec ensures uninterrupted critical software functions, such as licenses and information assurance vulnerability alerts. 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. Customer contract requirements gmd development and. 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. Elbit systems of america is an faa certified repair station for radio, airframe, power plant, accessories and instrument ratings. 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. Intellectual property, data management, and configuration management, page.
The groundbased midcourse defense gmd system is the united states only operationally deployed missile defense program capable of. Lockheed martin and alaska aerospace partner for gmd development and sustainment contract alaska aerospace to provide responsive operations and sustainment support at. Lockheed martin and alaska aerospace partner for gmd. Support hardware and software fielding as well as gm system upgrades. The growing importance of sustaining software for the dod. 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. In addition to the merlin and metro, we support a variety of aircraft. Matt and george deployed to support our post production software support requirement and have done.
As the oem for the merlin metro family of aircraft, we offer all factory support for the sa26, sa226 and sa227. According to a fact sheet from the office of the under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, an undefinitized contract action uca. Includes processes, procedures, people, material and information required to support, maintain and operate the software aspects of a system sei definition. Request for proposal groundbased midcourse defense. Lockheed martin announces additional partners for gmd. In part 1 of this series, i summarized key software sustainment challenges facing the dod. 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. Groundbased midcourse defense gmd program overview. The cssg provides recommendations based on best practices bps that are mapped to air force product support elements. Comprehensive requirements to support, maintain and operate the software. Lockheed martin announces additional partners for gmd development and sustainment contract. Cecom provides life cycle software solutions and services that support units c5isr and business system requirements.
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