Nuc Detonation Det Sys (sensors)

The Program Office is developing the Universal Ground NUDET Detection System (NDS) Terminal (UGNT) 7 modernization effort (Project 672808) for Guardians across Missile Warning and Missile Tracking (MW/MT) mission area. As a result, the Service will improve readiness and operational reach of existing force structure. The UGNT 7 modernization effort is the Survivable/Endurable (S/E) system capable of processing United States Nuclear Detonation (NUDET) data from the next-gen NDS payloads on Global Positioning System (GPS) IIIF. The receiver development portion is included as part of the Integrated Correlation and Display Systems (ICADS) 7 strategy. Portions of hardware and software will be replaced within the UGNT trailers. ICADS 7 software baseline will require updates and to be installed in UGNTs, enabling them to be Fully Mission Capable. These updates are required to download nuclear detonation data from GPS IIIF satellites enabling Department of War (DoW) and Combatant Command decision makers to have near-real time decision quality data for nuclear force management in support of the Nuclear Command, Control and Communication (NC3) mission set. The United States NUDET Detection System (USNDS) provides a near real-time worldwide, highly survivable/endurable capability to detect, locate, and report any nuclear detonation in the earth's atmosphere or in near space. USNDS supports NUDET detection requirements across five mission areas: Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment (ITW/AA), Nuclear Force Management (NFM), Space Control, Treaty Monitoring, and a classified mission. The USNDS program is jointly sponsored and funded by the DoW, through the Space Force, and the Department of Energy (DOE), through the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its Nuclear Detonation Detection office (NA-22), respectively. NNSA/NA-22 supplies USNDS space sensors as Government Furnished Equipment to the Space Force's USNDS Program Office, which is responsible for all acquisition and Systems Engineering, Integration and Test activities on Space Vehicles (SVs), to include GPS and additional hosts, and their supporting ground control segments. The USSF directly funds the development of the USNDS ground segment (described below).