All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The Pentagon requested $15,000,000 in 2020 for a space-based interceptors study for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon requested $15,000,000 in 2020 for a space-based discrimination assessment for the Space Development Agency.
An additional $306,000,000 of the 2020 space budget proposal is for standing up U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command and the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon requested $20,000,000 in 2020 to develop a proliferated low Earth orbit sensor network for the Space Development Agency.
The Pentagon requested $44,800,000 for Space Development Agency staffing in 2020.
The Pentagon requested $10,000,000 in 2020 for commercial procurement of space situational awareness services and launch of small satellites in low Earth orbit for the Space Development Agency.
Fred Kennedy, via the Blackjack program and the Space Development Agency, has provided significant funding for smallsat efforts to date.
The Space Development Agency will develop a proliferated sensor data and communications transport layer in Low Earth orbit.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and some lawmakers challenged Department of Defense leaders to justify creating the Space Development Agency given existing DoD organizations developing next-generation space technologies.
The memo from Fred Kennedy states that the Space Development Agency will operate with far less bureaucracy than a typical DoD agency and will buy technology from commercial vendors to reduce infrastructure and manpower requirements and speed deployment of new systems.
The Space Development Agency's transport layer will consist of a large number of mass-produced small satellites with multiple inter-satellite cross-links and redundant space-to-ground links networked to provide global, persistent, low-latency data transfer.
The Department of Defense is requesting $149,000,000 in fiscal year 2020 to get the Space Development Agency started.
A 2019-03-18 letter addressed to Patrick Shanahan urged co-locating the Space Development Agency headquarters in New Mexico and using New Mexico entities to implement directed space R&D policies.
The Space Development Agency decision surprised many inside the Pentagon and was not well received by Air Force organizations that currently develop space systems.
The Space Development Agency is not intended to displace the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, which will continue to produce and oversee the legacy space architecture.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan established the Space Development Agency as a separate organization within the Department of Defense in a 2019-03-12 memo.
The Department of Defense requested $149,800,000 for the Space Development Agency in its budget for fiscal year 2020.
Mike Griffin characterized the Space Development Agency as a new capability with new functions intended to provide capacities the Department of Defense cannot perform now.
The 2019-03-12 memo from Patrick Shanahan describes the Space Development Agency’s first project as a national security space architecture that provides persistent, resilient, global, low-latency surveillance.
The Space Development Agency plans a proliferated LEO sensor and communications transport layer using commercially produced satellites and payloads as a foundation for military constellations.