Air Force Space Command
7/28/2014 - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The
U.S. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center, or
SMC, awarded an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract
under the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) program July 10.
The multiple-award HoPS IDIQ contract provides a rapid and flexible
means for the government to acquire commercial hosting capabilities for
government payloads.
"Hosted Payloads provide resilient, affordable military space
capabilities in an increasingly contested, congested and competitive
space environment during a time of austere budgets," said General
William Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command.
The award of the HoPS contracts created a pool of qualified vendors and
provides flexibility for up to six hosted payloads. There were two
categories for competition, geosynchronous orbit, or GEO, and
medium-earth orbit/low-earth orbit, or MEO/LEO.
SMC will also award the IDIQ contract's first competitive delivery order
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Tropospheric
Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission study. From the newly
formed competitive pool, up to four GEO lane contract holders will be
awarded study contracts to examine the feasibility of accommodating the
TEMPO instrument as a hosted payload.
"We're looking at every constellation with resiliency and affordability
in mind--considering every concept we can think of to include hosted
payloads, disaggregated capabilities and commercial services," said
General Shelton.
According to General Shelton, the Air Force will use hosted payloads if
it is architecturally feasible to lower cost and still deliver the
capability. Hosted payloads can increase the Government's access to
space and add resilience to U.S. military space systems through
disaggregation, while reducing cost and improving schedule
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