MUOS satellite system deemed fully operational
NewsOctober 21, 2019
DENVER, Colo. The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), developed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin with ground systems provider General Dynamics Mission Systems, was deemed operationally effective, operationally suitable, and cyber survivable, following completion of its Multiservice Operational Test and Evaluation (MOT&E).
This summer’s MOT&E, conducted by the U.S. Navy’s Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, included participation from the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps. Mobile forces have been conducting early testing and training on MUOS since the network was approved for Early Combatant Command use in July 2016.
Comprised of five geosynchronous satellites and four geographically dispersed relay ground stations, the MUOS network brings communications and mission data over a secure high-speed Internet Protocol-based system. MUOS also has demonstrated communication of Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS) messages.
The Navy's Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, and Space Systems (PEO C4 and Space Systems), and its Communications Satellite Program Office responsible for the MUOS program, are based in San Diego, Calif.
