Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it has commanded an on-orbit spacecraft using the U.S. Air Force’s Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) framework. This demonstration directly follows on the heels of three successful pathfinder studies announced earlier by Kratos for migrating the Command and Control System – Consolidated (CCS-C) ground system to the EGS architecture. CCS-C provides consolidated Military SATCOM tracking, telemetry and command capability for 14th Air Force and 50th Space Wing. The Kratos demonstration supports the Air Force’s strategic approach to implementing a common service-based satellite ground infrastructure that will evolve current satellite ground systems into one platform. EGS is a critical enabling technology that is focused on a sustainable, resilient space architecture that can respond to emerging threats and protect space-based assets. Kratos EGS software and services commanded an on-orbit spacecraft and demonstrated multiple capabilities supporting the EGS framework. These included the EGS service paradigm and dynamically allocating satellite ground resources and executing deployment automation with the ability to spin up new satellite command and control instances in less than 10 minutes. Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a method of estimating technology maturity of critical technology elements of a program during the acquisition process. TRL 8 readiness means that the actual system was completed and mission qualified through test and demonstration in an operational environment.