RAIDRS will be a family of systems being designed to detect, report, identify, locate, and classify attacks against military space assets. RAIDRS will include detection sensors, information processors, and a reporting architecture. The RAIDRS system will detect and report attacks on both ground and space-based elements of operational space systems. It will notify operators and users, and carry information to decision-makers

• Worldwide network of sensors; Centralized management
• Detect, Identify, Characterize SATCOM EMI interference
• Identify signal characteristics
• Geo-locate SATCOM EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference)
• Report interference on blue space systems and/or services

• Commander's decision support tool that provides Defensive Counterspace (DCS) attack assessment
• Integrates and processes critical Space Situation Awareness (SSA) information to provide the integrated space picture that enables DCS operations
• Multi-level distributed data fusion; Advanced visualization

The RAIDRS system is unique in the acquisitions process for being tailored to small businesses and utilizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software.

According to the Air Force budget, the service intends to spend about $16 million in 2005 on the RAIDRS program; $16.4 million in 2006; $12.1 million in 2007; $12.4 million in 2008; and $66.6 million in 2009.

Contractor: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions

• Peterson AFB, Colorado (2007–present) (Central Operating Location)

• 16th Space Control Squadron
• 380th Space Control Squadron

• 21st Space Wing Factsheet: 16th Space Control Squadron
• "U.S. Air Force System to Pinpoint Interference Sources", Space News 15 Nov 2004
• Air War College: Space Acquisition Projects
• "New squadron activates at Peterson", 21st Space Wing Public Affairs, 21 May 2007
• Space and Missile Systems Center: Transforming Military Space, 30 Nov 2006
• DefenseTech.org: "Pentagon's Plans for Space Control", 26 Jan 2007