Air Force Space Command's SBIRS Wing at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, California is responsible for development and acquisition of the satellites.

The Space-Based Infrared System ( SBIRS ) is a consolidated system intended to meet the United States ' infrared space surveillance needs through the first two to three decades of the 21st century.

The SBIRS program is designed to provide key capabilities in the areas of missile warning, missile defense and battlespace characterization.

SBIRS GEO-2 is expected to be launched in 2013.

SBIRS is to use more sophisticated infrared technologies than the DSP to enhance the detection of strategic and theater ballistic missile launches and the performance of the missile-tracking function.

SBIRS High ( also now simply referred to as " SBIRS ") is to consist of four dedicated satellites operating in geosynchronous earth orbit, and sensors on two host satellites operating in a highly elliptical orbit.

SBIRS High will replace the Defense Support Program satellites and is intended primarily to provide enhanced strategic and theater ballistic missile warning capabilities.

The prime contractor for SBIRS is Lockheed Martin, with Northrop Grumman as the major subcontractor.

The SBIRS Low contract is now managed by the Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ) and has been subsequently renamed to the Space Tracking and Surveillance System ( STSS ).

Configuration of SBIRS systems: GEO, HEO and Low components.

DSP satellites will be replaced by the Space-Based Infrared System ( SBIRS ) satellites.

The project was originally to have had a life of 25 satellites, but the last two have been canceled, mainly due to SBIRS.

A complement of satellites in low earth orbit was planned as part of the program ( SBIRS Low ), but this has been moved into the STSS program.

In summary, as of June 2012, a total of 6 satellites carrying SBIRS or STSS payloads have been launched: GEO-1 ( USA-230, 2011 ), HEO-1 ( USA-184, 2006 ), HEO-2 ( USA-200, 2008 ), STSS-ATRR ( USA-205, 2009 ), STSS Demo 1 ( USA-208, 2009 ) and STSS Demo 2 ( USA-209, 2009 ).

Two SBIRS sensors hosted on two classified satellites in highly elliptical orbit have already been launched, probably as part of the NROL-22 ( USA 184 ) and NROL-28 ( USA 200 ) launches in 2006 and 2008.

The SBIRS Low program was originally expected to consist of about 24 satellites in low earth orbit.

Brilliant Eyes was renamed Space and Missile Tracking System ( SMTS ) and scaled back further under BMDO, and in the late 1990s it became the low earth orbit component of the Air Force's Space Based Infrared System ( SBIRS ).

In December 2005, following the third SBIRS Nunn-McCurdy violation, the government decided to compete GEO 4 and 5, with an option to buy the GEO 3 contingent based on the performance of the first two.

The first GEO satellite of the SBIRS program, GEO-1, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket on May 7, 2011.

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SBIRS High GEO 1 was launched on May 7, 2011.

Lockheed Martin also provides the satellite for SBIRS GEO.

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SBIRS ground software integrates infrared sensor programs of the U. S. Air Force ( USAF ) with new IR sensors.

In addition, Joint Tactical Ground Stations ( JTAGS ) provide deployable downlinks for SBIRS data.

SBIRS continues to struggle with cost overruns, with Nunn-McCurdy breaches occurring in 2001 and 2005.

Additionally, the government started a potential SBIRS High replacement program, writing out proposals in June 2006.

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