- Space Ground System Solutions, a Parsons company, secured a $245 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to assist the Blossom Point Tracking Facility with software engineering and related services.
- The facility is a command, control and communications ground station operating under the Naval Research Laboratory
- The contract will be carried out in two simultaneous task orders to be completed by June 2031.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Parsons subsidiary Space Ground System Solutions a $245 million contract to provide software and operations services for the Naval Research Laboratory’s Blossom Point Tracking Facility in Maryland, the Department of War announced Friday.
Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity agreement, the U.S. Navy will issue two concurrent task orders to assist the laboratory in software development, cybersecurity and information technology infrastructure for the Blossom Point ground station. The target completion date for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts is June 2031.
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What Is the Function of the Blossom Point Tracking Facility?
The NRL Blossom Point Tracking Facility provides pre- to post-launch command, control and communications support to new and on-orbit spacecraft. It also conducts compatibility testing, mission data processing and asset decommissioning. The NRL’s Neptune software monitors and controls the satellite C2 ground equipment supported by the facility. BPTF has supported unclassified, secret, top secret and multimission special operations commands.
What Is Space Ground Systems Solutions?
Space Ground System Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Parsons and an ongoing partner of NRL in software engineering services areas ranging from spacecraft design to ground station maintenance. It also specializes in software-defined radio frequency processing and the development and field installation of embedded radar monitoring and measuring systems to NRL’s Tactical Electronic Warfare Division. SGSS employs a C2 software suite that is utilized on over 100 national security space satellites.
