The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and the Air Force Eastern Range (ER) use data from two cIoud-to-ground (CG) lightning detection networks, the Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System (CGLSS) and the U.s. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), and a volumetric: mapping array the lightning detection and ranging II (LDAR II) system: These systems are used to monitor and characterize lightning that is potentially hazardous to launch or ground operations and hardware. These systems are not perfect and both have documented missed lightning events when compared to the existing lightning surveillance system at Launch Complex 39B (LC39B). Because of this finding it is NASA’s plan to instaD a lightning surveillance system around each of the active launch pads sharing site locations and triggering capabilities when possible. TM paper shows how the existing lightning surveillance system at LC39B has performed in 2011 as well as the plan for the expansion around all active pads.