EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – U.S. Space Force battle-management experts are surveying industry for products, technologies, and services in command and control; battle management; and space intelligence.
Officials of the Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) office of the Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) in El Segundo, Calif., issued a commercial solutions opening (FA8806-26-S-0001) on Wednesday for the Kronos Family of Systems Commercial Solutions Opening project. This office is responsible for developing, modernizing, and sustaining integrated command, control, and communications for space operations.
The command and control area of interest involves cyber security, and seeks to enable end-to-end planning, preparation, execution, and assessment in a unified, interoperable framework.
Goals include developing and ranking commander’s intent; deliberate and dynamic target development and effects-based operations; capability and feasibility analysis; commander’s decision-making; real-time mission monitoring of changing conditions; combat assessment; and shared situational awareness.
Scalable, modular solutions
Proposed solutions must be scalable, modular, and extensible to support evolving mission needs and emerging technologies. Cloud-native design, DevSecOps practices, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning integration, data management, and zero trust cyber security are of prime importance.
Battle management seeks to develop an integrated space attack planning toolkit for effects-based planning and coordination. The toolkit should match resources and requirements when it comes to balancing commands, effects, and priorities with available resources like tactical units and intelligence and surveillance assets.
Goals include rapid course-of-action development, feasibility modeling, probability of success analysis, and collateral impact assessment. Proposals should support battle management with real-time status, warnings, and orders.
The toolkit also must help commanders monitor effects, support dynamic guidance updates, and coordinate responses with tactical units. The solution must be modular, scalable, and integrate with the Kronos command and control architecture.
Tell me more about space battle management ...
- Space battle management involves coordinating and directing military forces in space during conflict. It includes strategy, tactics, and resource allocation to make the most of spacecraft, satellites, and ground systems. Key elements include real-time monitoring of space assets, tracking enemy movements, and defending against threats like missile attacks or cyber warfare. Commanders must manage communications, logistics, and fleet coordination across vast distances, often with delayed response times. The challenge is to adapt to the dynamic and three-dimensional nature of space by balancing offensive and defensive operations while ensuring the security of critical assets like communications satellites or space stations. Advanced technologies like AI, autonomous drones, and advanced sensors are critical in modern space battle management.
Space intelligence seeks to enhance decision-making by unifying battlespace characterization, collection operations, and targeting.
Battlespace characterization should help commanders understand and predict enemy capabilities, tactics, dispositions, centers of gravity, and courses of action for targeting and decision-making.
Collection operations must help commanders acquire actionable data on the environment, enemy activity, and infrastructure to close intelligence gaps and enhance situational awareness.
Space targeting
Targeting must help commanders select, rank, and engage targets by integrating intelligence at every stage of the targeting cycle. Scalability, modularity, and interoperability with the Kronos command and control architecture are essential, with emphasis on real-time data integration and visualization using AI and machine learning.
Companies interested should email unclassified white papers no later than 11 Dec. 2025 to the Space Force's Rodrigo Laguna at [email protected]. Those submitting promising white papers may be invited to submit full proposals.
Email questions or concerns to Rodrigo Laguna at [email protected]. More information is online at https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/e74a8c6323494b129007103515f0e178/view.
