The effects of any budget/program decisions made since the information was collected during 1997-98 are NOT reflected in the National Security Space Road Map (NSSRM).

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(U) Range Standardization and Automation (RSA) Phase 1

Description (U):

(U) Two national ranges, the Eastern Range and Western Range provide tracking, telemetry, communicatons, command/control and other support capabilites necessary to safely conduct civil, commercial and national security spacelift operations, ballistic missile test and evaluation (T&E), and a variety of aeronautical and guided weapons T&E.

(U) Current range assets are based on 1950's and 1960's designs and technology, and are arrayed in a highly inefficient, manpower intensive architecture. Range instrumentation reliability is deteriorating and over 40% of the components are obsolete without sources of support. The ranges currently do not provide the responsiveness and flexibility critical to affordably support the nation's space lift needs.

(U) The RSA Phase 1 contract was competitively awarded in FY 93 to provide Consolidated Instrumentation Facilities (CIF) at Antigua and Ascension, satellite communications from these sites to the Eastern Range Operations Control Center, a Central Telemetry Processing System for both ranges, and Cape Canaveral Air Station communications network upgrades.

User Impact (U):

(U) RSA is critical to the future of spacelift ranges. Performance and cost goals cannot be achieved without RSA. The result will be a reconfigurated range system capable of a major operation in less than 4 hours versus 2-3 days. An objective of RSA is to operate for 20% less than current range O&S costs but is supportable through existing Air Force logistics infrastructure and standard practices.

Programmatics (U):

(U) Programmed.

• (U) IOC: 06/1999 (3QFY1999).
  
  (U) Other Dates: RSA Phase 1:
  -- (U) PDR 1FY96;
  -- (U) CDR 2FY97;
  -- (U) Developmental T&E 1FY98;
  -- (U) Cape FO Network Installation 4FY98;
  -- (U) SATCOM Installation 4FY98;
  -- (U) Operational T&E 3FY99;
  -- (U) Phase 1 system turnover 3 FY99.

Images (U):

(U) None.

Related Initiatives (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
Antigua	Antigua
Ascension	Ascension
COMMU	Communications Upgrades (COMMU)
Eastern Range	Eastern Range
Network Operations Upgrades	Network Operations Upgrades (NOU)
Range Upgrades	Range Upgrades (RANGEU)
RSA Phase 2A/B	Range Standardization and Automation (RSA) Phase 2A/B
Western Range	Western Range

Related Requirements (U): None.

Related Categories (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
Range Standardization & Auto.	Range Standardization and Automation Program (RSA)
Spacelift	Spacelift

Road Map Placements (U):

This Table Is Unclassified.

Name	Title
National Security Space Road Map	Integrated System Road Map
SPACE FORCES SUPPORT	SPACE FORCES SUPPORT

Requirements, Funding and Additional Hotlinks (U):

(U) None.

Lead Office (U):

Air Force.

(U) DoD: USD(A&T) and OASD(C3I), Pentagon, Washington, DC
(U) Service Staff: SAF/AQS, Pentagon, Washington, DC
(U) Major Command: HQ AFSPC/DR, Peterson AFB, CO
(U) Program Management: SMC/CW, Los Angeles AFB, CA.

Point of Contact (U):

(U) Lt Col Jerry McDaniel, SMC, Open Phone: DSN 833-5802.

Date Of Information (U):

(U) 03 June 1998

(U) Road Map Production Date: 23 June 2001