The Defense Department is working on a major review of its space "posture" to be completed later this year, after a similar inter-agency effort for the White House.
Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) will create a virtual space environment that will be used to test space hardware for the Defense Department under a $26.1 million contract.
Data from the NFIRE satellite was downlinked to the Missile DefenseSpace Experimentation Center (MDSEC) at the Missile Defense Integration & Operations Center (MDIOC) at Schriever AFB, Colo.