[Satellite Today – 5-28-08] The Boeing Company hopes to play a key role in the U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) program. The company, announced, May 28, that it had submitted a bid to the U.S. Air Force for the program.
The program, valued at approximately $30 million, will demonstrate a system that detects threats to U.S. space assets using instruments hosted on satellites. A contract award is expected later this year.
    "Boeing’s solution provides a low-risk approach that offers full mission capability," said Craig Cooning, vice president and general manager for Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems. "We are combining our space experience and understanding of the mission with our hardware and software expertise to support the Air Force in demonstrating the technologies necessary for an operational, common-threat warning system."
    As part of Boeing’s commitment to the program, the company successfully completed a demonstration of its system’s compatibility with a host vehicle and with multiple threat-warning instruments.