SATELLITE GROUND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Entarian supports satellite ground systems using a mission‑first operations and sustainment model designed to ensure reliability, security, and continuous improvement across complex, multi‑mission environments. We apply standardized, repeatable processes aligned with ITIL and configuration management best practices while maintaining the flexibility required to support unique system priorities across NOAA, DoD, and interagency missions.
Challenge
NOAA’s Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) relies on diverse and complex ground systems to support multiple satellite missions across different platforms and agencies. These systems require continuous availability, secure operations, and consistent performance while adapting to evolving mission needs.
Solution
Entarian provides comprehensive operations, maintenance, and sustainment (OMS) services for NOAA satellite ground systems, supporting deployed hardware, firmware, and software; managing satellite‑to‑ground communications; and delivering systems engineering, cloud computing, and cybersecurity services. Entarian applies standardized ITIL‑aligned processes, rigorous configuration management, and continuous monitoring to ensure secure and reliable operations across all supported systems.
Impact
Entarian delivers 24x7x365 secure enterprise operations across all NOAA OSPO satellite ground systems, ensuring consistent performance, operational resilience, and sustained mission readiness. These efforts enable uninterrupted satellite operations, reliable data delivery, and long‑term sustainment of critical national capabilities.
What we do
Our team’s expertise includes:
- Model Based Systems Engineering + Digital Blueprints
- Cloud-Native Engineering and Platform Delivery employing SAFe Agile and robust DevSecOps
- AI-Enabled Insight & Interaction, Modeling and Simulations
- Enterprise Space and Technology Mission Management
- Unified Situational Awareness and Effective Capacity Utilization
- Secure Modernization (Cybersecurity, Communications Security)
- Mission Network as A Service
- Specialized Engineering (e.g. Spectrum Management)
Our Clients
What we do
24x7x365 satellite ground system operations, maintenance, and sustainment
We provide 24x7x365 ground systems operations support for mission critical systems to ensure availability, proficiency, and resilience. Our team provides enterprise systems engineering, security compliance, system administration, software engineering, data acquisition, processing, and distribution, anomaly detection and response, and end user support functions. We perform preventive and corrective maintenance, ensuring that all systems remain functional and reliable. Our team monitors key Metrics and KPIs to aid informed sustainment decisions to ensure long-term viability, performance, and mission adaptability.
Operations and maintenance (O&M) of deployed hardware, firmware, and software ground systems
We perform mission-critical functions that ensure availability, integrity, and performance of ground systems. Our team maintains situational awareness through continuous health and status monitoring and ensures uninterrupted operations with rapid detection and resolution of anomalies. We perform fault detection, isolation, and diagnosis, tiered incident response and escalation, hardware repairs/replacements, firmware/software fixes, patches, hotfix deployments, as well as root cause and corrective action implementations that minimize the downtimes and ensures rapid recovery while preventing recurrences. Our team keeps the systems secure, up-to-date, and controlled ensuring system and data integrity, confidentiality, and availability while reducing operational risks.
Management of satellite‑to‑ground communications
We manage critical space to ground communication to ensure link availability, quality, and efficiency. Our team performs mission critical real-time control functions such as interference detection and mitigation to ensure stable high-quality communications under dynamic conditions. We deliver reliable, secure, and performant network and data transport management solutions across the communications chain through effective bandwidth allocations, protocol management, latency, jitter, and throughput optimization.
Antenna operations, maintenance, and sustainment engineering across multiple frequency bands
We employ antenna engineering solutions that ensure precision performance, cross-band reliability, and long-term operability of mission critical systems. Our team performs multi-band calibration and validation functions that ensure the antenna systems deliver accurate, optimized performance across all supported frequencies. We support precision tracking, control, and real-time operations for continuous accurate satellite tracking and maximize link availability across multiple frequency bands. Our team performs reliability engineering, maintenance, and lifecycle sustainment activities such as preventive and predictive maintenance, fault isolation and repair, obsolescence management and performance trending to ensure the antenna systems remain operational, maintainable, and future-ready.
Data collection, ingestion, processing, analysis, archiving, and dissemination
We perform mission critical functions covering the entire data operations lifecycle from collection, ingestion, processing, analysis, archiving, and distribution. Our team supports multi-source data collection, secure ingestion, data validation, metadata tagging, data normalization, and formatting that provides trusted, well-structured, and timely data products. We perform data processing, fusion, and analytics activities including real-time and batch data processing, data fusion across sources, algorithm execution, quality assurance and error correction, delivering high-value, decision-ready products. Our team deploys solutions for scalable storage and archiving, data cataloging, indexing, access control, data distribution and lifecycle management (retention, compliance, purge) to enable reliable access, long-term preservation, and efficient sharing of data products.
Systems engineering, architecture design, and lifecycle refresh modeling
We provide comprehensive integrated engineering solutions that ensure technical coherence, scalability, and long-term future-ready resilient viability. Our team performs requirements engineering and system integration functions from stakeholder needs capture, decomposition into technical requirements, requirements traceability, interface definition and control, system integration and test, through verification and validation to ensure that the delivered systems meet mission requirements with clear traceability and compliance. We provide architecture design and trade space solutions including end-to-end architecture development, technology selections, modular and open architecture designs, performance modeling, and capacity planning. Our team performs core lifecycle engineering planning activities including technology refresh roadmaps, obsolescence management and risk mitigation, reliability and maintainability engineering, digital engineering, simulation and model-based systems engineering that enable sustained performance, reduce lifecycle risks, and aid planned evolution decisions.
Cloud migration of ground system applications and products
We provide core cloud migration solutions that ensure mission continuity, performance, and security throughout the full transition lifecycle. Our team performs effective and efficient migration strategy, assessment, and architecture design activities including application portfolio assessments, dependency mapping, hybrid, multi-cloud, edge integrations, performance, latency, and bandwidth analysis resulting in clear, risk-informed roadmap and target architecture aligned to mission needs. We perform environment provisioning, application migration and automation, data migration and validation, comprehensive integration and testing functions to successfully deploy applications and data in the cloud with minimal disruption to operations and improved performance. Our team ensures that cloud environments are secure and efficient through key activities including cloud-native monitoring, cybersecurity, cost optimization, performance turning, code refactoring and continuous integration/continuous deployment solutions.
Cybersecurity, configuration management, and compliance support
We perform tightly-coupled functions related to cybersecurity operation and risk management, configuration and change control management, and compliance, audit, and continuous authorization support to ensure secure operations, controlled systems states, and audit readiness. Our team provides solutions in the areas of continuous monitoring, threat detection and incident response, vulnerability management, identity, credential, and access management, encryption and key management, configuration baseline definition, change management, version control and release management, asset inventory, patch management, and secure configuration enforcement, Risk Management Framework implementation, continuous ATO, audit preparation and reporting (System Security Plans, Plan of Action and Milestones management), and compliance automation to ensure integrity, confidentiality, and availability of mission critical systems.
Real‑time monitoring, anomaly detection, and mitigation
We provide robust solutions to ensure situational awareness, rapid insights, and decisive responses. Our team performs multi-domain real-time data collection, centralized logging, metrics, and tracing activities, and builds real-time dashboards enabling a live, unified operational view for the operators. We conduct anomaly detection and diagnostics activities including threshold-based and model-based anomaly detection, event correlation and pattern recognition across data sources, fault isolation and root cause analysis, trend analysis and predictive indicators, false-positive reduction and alert prioritization that deliver timely, high-confidence detection and diagnosis of discrepancies proactively. Our team performs automated response and mitigation such as fault containment, system reconfigurations (load balancing, rerouting, parameter tuning), operator decision support and escalation workflows, post-incident recovery and service restoration to ensure minimal service disruption and fast return to operations through coordinated, comprehensive, and cohesive response.
Mission readiness and systems integration testing
We deliver solutions to ensure that mission critical systems are fully integrated, validated, and operationally ready. Our team performs integration and interface validation activities including end-ot-end system integration, interface control document verification, hardware-software-firmware interoperability testing, data flow validations to confirm fully integration systems have operationally intact interfaces and are interoperable. We ensure that the systems meet requirements and uphold top performance under dynamic mission conditions. Our verification, validation, and performance testing functions include core activities of requirements verification and traceability testing, functional, performance, and stress testing, environmental and operations condition testing, and thorough regression testing campaigns that provide objective evidence that the systems meet technical and mission performance requirements. We conduct comprehensive operational readiness and rehearsal functions to ensure people, processes, and systems are ready for live operations through core activities including end-to-end mission simulations, day-in-the-life scenarios, anomalies and contingency drills, operator training and certification validation, readiness reviews, continuity of operations exercises, and documentation validation that deliver confidence that the mission critical systems and operations team can execute the mission successfully from day one.
Solutions in Action
Entarian safeguards lives by supporting the SARSAT system, delivering secure, real‑time distress alerts through continuous 24/7/365 operations. In coordination with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, and NOAA, Entarian ensures the system remains mission‑ready when lives are on the line.
Challenge
Search and rescue operations depend on uninterrupted, secure, and accurate distress signal detection across a global satellite and ground network. Any lapse in availability, data integrity, or security could delay emergency response and put lives at risk, requiring exceptional reliability and coordination across multiple agencies.
Solution
Entarian provides comprehensive operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, software development, and end‑user support for the SARSAT system. The team ensures data integrity, performs trend analysis, implements continuous monitoring and security testing, and deploys validated technologies. Entarian also collaborates closely with NOAA through enterprise architecture planning and proactively transitions SARSAT to modern enterprise tools, often serving as a model system for NESDIS modernization efforts.
Impact
ERT’s support enables reliable, real‑time distress alerting that directly saves lives, with hundreds of rescues each year supported by high system availability and performance. Modernized infrastructure, enhanced security, and improved monitoring tools strengthen mission resilience, support rapid response by search and rescue partners, and ensure SARSAT remains a trusted, life‑saving capability for the nation.
Solutions in Action
Entarian safeguards lives by supporting the SARSAT system, delivering secure, real‑time distress alerts through continuous 24/7/365 operations. In coordination with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, and NOAA, Entarian ensures the system remains mission‑ready when lives are on the line.
Challenge
Search and rescue operations depend on uninterrupted, secure, and accurate distress signal detection across a global satellite and ground network. Any lapse in availability, data integrity, or security could delay emergency response and put lives at risk, requiring exceptional reliability and coordination across multiple agencies.
Solution
Entarian provides comprehensive operations, systems engineering, cybersecurity, software development, and end‑user support for the SARSAT system. The team ensures data integrity, performs trend analysis, implements continuous monitoring and security testing, and deploys validated technologies. Entarian also collaborates closely with NOAA through enterprise architecture planning and proactively transitions SARSAT to modern enterprise tools, often serving as a model system for NESDIS modernization efforts.
Impact
ERT’s support enables reliable, real‑time distress alerting that directly saves lives, with hundreds of rescues each year supported by high system availability and performance. Modernized infrastructure, enhanced security, and improved monitoring tools strengthen mission resilience, support rapid response by search and rescue partners, and ensure SARSAT remains a trusted, life‑saving capability for the nation.
100+
For NESDIS, Entarian migrated 100+ legacy algorithms to the cloud with verification of scientific output and data integrity across hybrid environments.
99.99%
We maintained 99.99% NCCF availability without operational downtime.
400
Our team includes 400 SMEs including 130 scientists, engineers, and data scientists performing enterprise satellite data ingest, pre-processing, stewardship, and data systems operations, maintenance, and improvement.
80%
Under SARSAT, Entarian completed major modernization milestones, including reducing physical server infrastructure by 80%.
50K+
Entarian’s support has helped SARSAT rescue more than 50K people worldwide.
99%
With our support, SARSAT achieved 99.5% availability while mitigating 99% of LUT, communications, and USMCC anomalies within one hour of detection.
