“Our adversaries are more capable and dangerous than ever before. Denying our enemies the ability to use space assets is crucial to protect U.S. military operations and warfighters,” said Andy Builta, Vice President and General Manager, Surveillance Systems, L3Harris. “For more than 60 years, L3Harris has been at the forefront of providing innovative systems and tools to protect U.S. forces and ensure our adversaries are at a disadvantage in the space domain. Meadowlands has been intentionally designed to be small, transportable and cost effective. This will enable the U.S. Space Force to more effectively and efficiently respond to potential threats in the future.”
The first space control platform in the Space Force, the CCS achieved Initial Operating Capability on March 9, 2020, and provides quick reaction capability with direct operational support to warfighters in support of U.S. interests in space and on the ground, across all domains.
The Meadowlands upgrade is a lighter-weight and more compact version of the CCS. Utilizing a more open architecture software system, it will be easier to make software updates to ensure that our nation’s warfighters can keep pace with evolving threats and missions. Offering more automated and efficient jamming power, the Meadowlands system will give the U.S. the ability to counter adversarial satellite communications capabilities that enable attacks in support of warfighters.
The completion of the SVR milestone, which took place at L3Harris’ Palm Bay, Fla. facility, verifies the performance of the system through analysis, demonstration, inspection and testing. During this important milestone, L3Harris increased system testing tied to specific range windows, which ensures the system will have more robust operational execution and reduced risk to the overall program.
Meadowlands is just one of several capabilities offered by the company that support Space Force space superiority and protects U.S. forces by ensuring any potential adversaries are at a disadvantage in the space domain.
