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U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)

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The Space Development Agency requests $16,000,000 in 2021 and $3,600,000,000 over five years to begin the transport layer.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency’s draft budget plans most funding in 2024 and 2025 with allocations of $259,000,000 in fiscal year 2021, $1,080,000,000 in 2022, $1,920,000,000 in 2023, $3,670,000,000 in 2024, and $3,680,000,000 in 2025.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Technical ProductOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency requests $10,000,000 in 2021 and $56,000,000 over five years for a battle management layer to support software development and upgrades of sensor-to-shooter data products.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The House Appropriations Committee reduced the Space Development Agency’s 2020 personnel funding request to $26,800,000 and cut the prototyping technology request to $35,000,000 while fully funding the $20,000,000 request for R&D.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency requests $10,000,000 in 2021 and $56,000,000 over five years for a navigation layer to develop alternative positioning, navigation, and timing services to supplement GPS, potentially using transport layer communications signals.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency’s $582,000,000 five-year baseline funding is to develop roadmaps for current DoD space programs, fund studies and sensor prototypes for the missile defense tracking layer, and fund studies on space-based interceptors and space-based discrimination.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency seeks more than $11,000,000,000 over five years to plan, design, and deploy large constellations of satellites for military use.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency requests $1,000,000 in 2021 and $451,000,000 over five years for a deterrence layer to fund deployment of a six-satellite constellation by 2023 growing to more than 30 satellites by 2025.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency plans a mesh network called the transport layer of more than 250 satellites to provide global communications services to the U.S. military.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency intends to develop and deploy satellites and payloads in two-year cycles and to use commercially available technology as much as possible.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Narrative PlanOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency splits its five-year budget into $582,000,000 in baseline funding for studies and roadmaps and $10,600,000,000 for research, development, prototyping, testing, and deployment of satellite constellations called layers.

Mentioned as: Space Development AgencyTechnical ProductOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Pentagon’s 2020 budget requested nearly $150,000,000 to get the Space Development Agency off the ground, including $44,700,000 for personnel, $20,000,000 for space research and development, and $85,000,000 for space technology prototyping.

Mentioned as: the space development agencyNarrative FinancialOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency’s draft budget request covers fiscal years 2021 through 2025.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Narrative GeneralOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency requests $61,000,000 in 2021 and $1,400,000,000 over five years for a support layer to help fund the procurement of about 40 launches, either dedicated rockets or rideshares, needed to deploy SDA-built and partner organization constellations.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency’s goal is to have working tracking-layer satellites by 2024.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Narrative PlanOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency plans to study the possibility of developing a space maneuvering vehicle to be deployed to cislunar orbits.

Mentioned as: the space development agencyNarrative PlanOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency plans to start the transport layer with about 20 satellites in 2022 and grow to more than 250 satellites by 2025.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipOct 6, 2019Space Development Agency lays out five-year plan in $11 billion proposed budget

The Space Development Agency plans to buy satellite buses directly from commercial vendors or use buses that DARPA is acquiring for the Blackjack program.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Org RelationshipSep 25, 2019Space Development Agency looks for political boost after early stumbles

The Pentagon’s 2020 budget request included nearly $150,000,000 to grow the Space Development Agency to approximately 100 engineers, scientists, and support contractors by the following year.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Narrative FinancialSep 25, 2019Space Development Agency looks for political boost after early stumbles

Derek Tournear was named acting director of the Space Development Agency on 2019-06-24.

Mentioned as: U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)Narrative GeneralSep 25, 2019Space Development Agency looks for political boost after early stumbles
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