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The Department of Defense stood up the Space Development Agency in March 2019 under Mike Griffin’s office.
The Space Development Agency must be transferred from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the U.S. Space Force by 2022-10-01 or earlier.
The 2021 draft National Defense Authorization Act is heavy on nuclear weapons policy and missile defense and raises questions about the Department of Defense’s use of commercial space technology, its acquisition strategy for satellite-based communications, and the future plans of the Space Development Agency.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to transfer the Space Development Agency to the U.S. Space Force by October 2022.
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear argued that the SDA needs at least two years to demonstrate its business model before being merged with the U.S. Space Force.
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett supports consolidating space programs under the U.S. Space Force and is pushing for the Space Development Agency to be realigned sooner than 2022.
The Space Development Agency plans to create sensor and communications layers to provide persistent, low-latency tracking and targeting.
Shawn Barnes supports transferring the Space Development Agency in a conditions-based manner and as soon as practical, ideally in fiscal year 2021.
The Department of Defense has committed to transferring the Space Development Agency to the Space Force by 2022-10-01.
Congress directed the Department of Defense to transfer the Space Development Agency to the Space Force by 2022-10-01.
Tranche 0 is the Space Development Agency’s initial deployment planned for 2022.
The Space Development Agency requires the transport-layer satellites to pass data in space and down to the ground with very low latency and plans to use optical inter-satellite crosslinks with RF crosslinks as a backup.
The Space Development Agency plans to buy optical terminals from multiple vendors and is asking bidders to ensure their hardware is interoperable with other vendors' systems.
The Space Development Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will test optical communications terminals that use lasers to beam data across space.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems signed an agreement with the Space Development Agency on 2020-06-05 to conduct a series of experiments for optical inter-satellite links using the company’s laser communication terminals.
The Space Development Agency included in a request for proposals that optical inter-satellite links are one of the most critical technologies required to be demonstrated for Tranche 0.
The Space Development Agency will solicit proposals from contractors to build the first eight satellites of the missile-tracking constellation.
The Space Development Agency will provide a sensor payload that the contractor must integrate with a satellite bus and place on a launch vehicle.
The Space Development Agency plans to have enough satellites by 2025 to achieve full global coverage for the missile-warning network.
By 2022 or 2023 the Space Development Agency plans to field an early version of a missile-warning network with about 70 wide-field-of-view and medium-field-of-view satellites to provide regional persistence in LEO.