The Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, has joined forces with Raytheon that will bring work on the Global Broadcast Systems software to the Utah facility, according to the Hilltop Times. The partnership agreement, reports Mitch Shaw, allows Ogden technicians to maintain GBS software, the first of “several” programs managed by the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., that the ALC expects to acquire.
The Space Development Agency is set to launch 21 Tranche 1 data transport satellites on Oct. 5—its fourth Tranche 1 mission since last fall and the first to carry Northrop Grumman-built satellites.