The Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) Lab, under Space Systems Command (SSC), is a U.S. Space Force initiative and technology accelerator focused on enhancing space domain awareness. It facilitates collaboration between the Space Force, industry, academia, and government partners to develop and rapidly deploy software solutions for space battle management and to address critical challenges like detecting threats to satellites. The TAP Lab utilizes programs like the Apollo Accelerator to foster innovation, providing participants with data, resources, and mentorship to create solutions that can be fast-tracked into operational use. Associated keywords include: space domain awareness, technology acceleration, space battle management, and kill chain analysis.
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Diffraqtion is collaborating with the U.S. Space Force’s Apollo Accelerator and the Space Systems Command TAP Lab to integrate its sensor data into military space defense architectures.
The Colorado Springs TAP Lab is partnering with MITRE, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Aerospace, and the Supra Coder program to provide foundational services and data and code sharing solutions.
The Colorado Springs TAP Lab will expose data at all classification levels to industry, academia, government agency, and allied partners and provide a sandbox for experimentation, including implementing artificial intelligence.
The TAP Lab provides developers access to data from multiple sensors to create and test new software applications and algorithms.