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The Department of Defense, the Space Development Agency, and DARPA must provide a report by 2020-02-15 detailing progress on a proliferated LEO architecture and how it could enhance resilience and integrate into national security space strategy and architecture.
The Space Development Agency was stood up on 2019-03-12 and is led by former DARPA official Fred Kennedy.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan advocated establishing a Space Force, a U.S. Space Command, and a Space Development Agency to ensure the United States stays ahead of adversaries advancing their space capabilities.
The Space Development Agency will focus on developing and delivering next-generation space-based communications and earth observation capabilities.
The House Appropriations Committee included a legislative provision requiring the Space Development Agency and the Air Force to lay out a plan to develop a unified and integrated space architecture.
The Department of Defense requested $149,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 to create a new Space Development Agency within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
The Congressional Budget Office analyzed future costs for the Space Force, U.S. Space Command, and the Space Development Agency and projected costs for the Space Force significantly higher than $2,000,000,000 over five years.
The legislation restricts funds for the Space Development Agency and provides $15,000,000 to further study the establishment of a Space Force.
In its fiscal year 2020 budget request, the Department of Defense requested $72,000,000 to stand up the Space Force, $83,000,000 to establish U.S. Space Command, and $149,000,000 for the Space Development Agency.
The 2019-05-08 Congressional Budget Office report estimated that standing up an independent Space Force under the Air Force, a U.S. Space Command and a Space Development Agency would increase Department of Defense annual costs by $1,100,000,000 to $1,900,000,000 and incur one-time costs of $1,800,000,000 to $4,700,000,000.
A new military service, a combatant command, and a Space Development Agency collectively would increase the Department of Defense’s costs by up to $1,900,000,000 annually, according to CBO.
The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2020 Pentagon budget request seeks funding for a Space Force, U.S. Space Command, and a Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency's first project will be to design a large constellation of commercially produced satellites in low Earth orbit to serve as a communications layer and perform military space missions ranging from missile tracking to navigation.
Blackjack will remain a joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force program while the Space Development Agency develops a larger proliferated LEO architecture for operational use.
Fred Kennedy plans for the Space Development Agency to cooperate closely with the Services, Combatant Commands, and the intelligence community and to subject its concepts and architectures to peer review and red teaming.
The Pentagon’s budget request for 2020 includes $149,000,000 for the Space Development Agency.
The Air Force Association argues that establishing the Space Development Agency is unnecessary and redundant given the reforms of the Space and Missile Systems Center 2.0 effort.
The Pentagon revealed on 2019-03-13 that the Space Development Agency had been officially created.
Fred Kennedy, Director of the Space Development Agency, plans for the agency to tap commercial space industry capabilities to produce and launch low-cost satellites into low Earth orbit.
The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $15,000,000 to develop transport layer architecture and standards.