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The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $10,000,000 for commercial procurement of space situational awareness capabilities and launching LEO smallsats.
Fred Kennedy, director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office and mastermind of DARPA’s Blackjack program, was selected to lead the Space Development Agency.
The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $15,000,000 to develop transport layer architecture and standards.
The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $20,000,000 to develop the LEO sensor network.
Patrick Shanahan became acting Secretary of Defense in 2019-01-01 and signed a 2019-03-12 memo that officially created the Space Development Agency under the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
The Space Development Agency’s proposed transport layer would be used to develop Department of Defense capabilities including positioning, navigation and timing; low-latency targeting; and detection and tracking of ballistic and advanced missile threats.
The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $15,000,000 for a space-based discrimination assessment.
The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $15,000,000 for a space-based interceptors study.
The Space Development Agency’s first task is to design a proliferated sensor data and communications transport layer in low Earth orbit consisting of many mass-produced small satellites with multiple inter-satellite crosslinks and redundant space-to-ground links.
Patrick Shanahan included the Space Development Agency in an August 2018 proposal that laid out three pillars for managing the Pentagon’s space enterprise: U.S. Space Command, U.S. Space Force, and the Space Development Agency.
The Department of Defense budget request for the Space Development Agency included $30,000,000 for LEO missile warning ground integration.
The Department of Defense requested $44,800,000 to staff the Space Development Agency with an estimated 225 people split 50/50 between government and military personnel and support contractors.
Mike Griffin began planning the Space Development Agency in March 2018.
Patrick Shanahan established the Space Development Agency on 2019-03-12 under the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin.
Patrick Shanahan has been a staunch proponent of the Space Development Agency and has promoted it since he took charge of the Defense Department’s space reorganization in late 2017 when he was deputy secretary of defense.
The Space Development Agency was empowered with special authorities to procure satellites and other technologies from commercial vendors using simpler contracting methods than traditional DoD programs.
The 2019-04-16 letter from Reps. Ken Calvert and Ted Lieu raises strong objections to the Space Development Agency taking missions away from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
The Department of Defense established the Space Development Agency one month before the 2019-04-11 hearing to leverage commercial innovation without requiring congressional authorization.
The Pentagon requested $150,000,000 for the Space Development Agency for fiscal year 2020.
A year-long effort led by Patrick Shanahan and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin is creating a new Space Development Agency to accelerate innovation and develop next-generation military space systems.