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Northrop Grumman won a July 2022 contract for 14 missile-tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
Northrop Grumman will supply 36 data transport satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta.
The Space Development Agency plans to acquire an additional 100 “Alpha” satellites for the Tranche 2 Transport Laser.
Derek Tournear is the director of the Space Development Agency and the agency is in the procurement phase for Tranche 2 to support a 2026 delivery.
In February 2022, the Space Development Agency selected Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space Systems to each produce 42 satellites for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
T2TL Beta variant satellites will operate in tandem with the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 networks.
The 72 satellites will make up a portion of the Space Development Agency’s network known as Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts worth $1,500,000,000 to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin on 2023-08-21 to build and operate 72 satellites.
The Space Development Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed-price agreement valued at approximately $816,000,000 to build 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta satellites.
Northrop Grumman was selected by the Space Development Agency to design and build 36 data transport satellites for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
To date Lockheed Martin has won Space Development Agency contracts for 88 satellites and Northrop Grumman has won orders for 92 satellites.
The study funded by the Space Development Agency is to be completed over 90 days.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency announced on 2023-08-17 that the selected companies will conduct three-month studies.
The Space Development Agency is paying a total of $1,600,000 to SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions, and Aalyria Technologies to conduct the studies.
The Space Development Agency is interested in options that leverage existing or planned commercial optically-interconnected orbital mesh network and ground infrastructure to the maximum extent possible.
Terran Orbital has a smaller deal with Lockheed Martin to deliver 10 satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency missile-tracking LEO constellation.
The first contract action for Momentus under the SDA SBIR award is valued at $746,073 with an option to add an additional $1,196,404 for further work.
Momentus developed the M-1000 satellite bus based on the Vigoride platform and is offering the M-1000 to the Space Development Agency and other potential customers.
Momentus received a Small Business Innovation Research award from the Space Development Agency valued at nearly $750,000 to tailor the Vigoride tug for U.S. Department of Defense applications, with an option worth nearly $1,200,000 for future work.
The Space Development Agency has ordered 52 satellites from Lockheed Martin.