{"id":6380,"date":"2021-05-09T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2024-06-06T05:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:19:25","slug":"space-force-update-by-arnie-streland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/space-force-update-by-arnie-streland\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Update by Arnie Streland"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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TRA is continuing to provide opportunities for TRA members to convene online and to hear from interesting speakers.\u00a0 On Friday, April 30, 2021, TRA sponsored an online Zoom event with Arnie Streland.\u00a0 Arnie is the Northrop Grumman Corporate Lead Executive \u2013 Los Angeles, where he focuses on the Northrop Grumman relationship with the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).<\/p>

\"\"<\/a>Arnie gave a brief background on the actions that led to the stand-up of the Space Force in 2019.\u00a0 He told how USG non-civil space evolved from the days of Sputnik and the Cold War to new geopolitical realities after the Berlin Wall came down, and Desert Storm.\u00a0 Space Force was stood up by the Trump administration, and the Biden administration re-committed to it after the administration change.\u00a0 Arnie reviewed the organization and provided insight into how organizations that may be familiar, now fit in the new construct.\u00a0 TRA is fortunate to have such a seasoned veteran share this story at this event, as his all-space career was intertwined with it\u02bbs evolution in both the private and public sectors, his viewpoint meaningful on many fronts to TRW\/NG careerists.<\/p>

Arnie then provided updates on what\u02bbs happening with the burgeoning space business at Northrop Grumman.\u00a0 Northrop Grumman had $36.8B sales in 2020 with $81B backlog as of year-end 2020.\u00a0 With approximately 97,000 employees, it has leading capabilities in space, missiles, advanced weapons, aeronautics, and mission systems.\u00a0 There are four operating sectors, which include a Space Systems sector.\u00a0 This sector has approximately 25K employees, ~$8B in revenues, and is headquartered in Dulles, VA.\u00a0<\/p>

Most of what we associated with TRW space (not including what was known as Mission Systems or Systems Integration) is now in the Strategic Space Systems operating business unit, headquartered in Redondo Beach, CA.\u00a0 Current missions it does for what was previously SMC (the Space and Missile Systems at the Los Angeles Air Force Base) include the GEO Synchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP), Long Duration Propulsive ESPA, Advanced EHF Payloads, SBIRS Payloads, Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission with Enhanced Polar Segment \u2013 Recapitalization, Next Gen OPIR Polar, Minotaur, and Protected Tactical Satcom.\u00a0<\/p>

Arnie further discussed the ESPA Ring (EELV Standard Payload Adaptor) product, and the Mission Extension Vehicle used to extend mission life by delicately placing satellites back into a mission orbit without the use of internal fuel, extending mission life.\u00a0 You can view a video of the MEV-1 Mission Profile on youtube at:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_rgglvA5DdI<\/a>.<\/p>

NOTE:\u00a0 Logged in TRA members may view the recorded video of Arnie’s talk at this LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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TRA is continuing to provide opportunities for TRA members to convene online and to hear from interesting speakers.\u00a0 On Friday, [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.tra-spacepark.org\/cachetest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}