Army space operations officers can be compared to kickers on a football team: While not the most glamorous or even most well-known players, they can make or break a game.
Robert Tarleton is the director of the Military Satellite Communications (milsatcom) Systems Directorate in the Space and Missile Systems Center at Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. In his role he oversees several significant satcom programs critical to national defense, including the Defense Satellite Communications System, Wideband Global Satcom and Command and Control System-Consolidated, among others.
The competition is heating up for two missile defense industry giants Lockheed Martin and Raytheon as the Army’s deadline for accepting future integrated air-and-missile defense radar concepts from industry came to a close Monday.