Overview
- L3Harris’s Meadowlands jammer has entered final training, live-fire events, and mission rehearsals, with fielding expected this fiscal year, according to Space Operations Command.
- Remote Modular Terminals from Northstrat and CACI are in limited early use at undisclosed overseas sites where they can be operated remotely while testing continues.
- Once deployed, Meadowlands and the Remote Modular Terminals will join the Counter Communications System, a larger ground-based jammer declared operational in 2020.
- New Space Force data frames the push as a response to China’s expanding space fleet, citing more than 1,189 satellites on orbit and over 510 supporting PLA intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
- To coordinate jamming and monitor interference, the Space Force is standing up a Space Electromagnetic Tactical Operations Center that uses the Bounty Hunter detection system.