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A 2023-01-31 draft solicitation from the Space Development Agency seeks input from vendors interested in bidding for 72 satellites and supporting ground systems.
The Space Development Agency has already acquired satellites for Tranche 0 and Tranche 1 of the Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency is planning a procurement of 72 satellites to continue building a military constellation in low Earth orbit.
The Defense Department established the Space Development Agency in 2019 to accelerate procurement of space capabilities and leverage commercial-sector innovation.
SDA will continue to quickly deliver space-based capabilities to the joint warfighter by leveraging speed, delivery, and agility to develop, field, and operate the PWSA.
The U.S. government's Space Development Agency (SDA) is undertaking standardization efforts to support manufacturing development of optical communications terminals.
SDA works with a warfighter council of military leaders who inform the design and features of the Transport Layer and the Tracking Layer.
The Space Development Agency renamed its planned network of military satellites Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Space Development Agency renamed its resilient layered network of military satellites and supporting elements to the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Terran Orbital expanded facilities in California to accelerate production of satellite buses it is providing to Lockheed Martin for a Space Development Agency contract.
SDA’s first Tranche 0 comprises 28 satellites with launches planned in March and June.
Terran Orbital completed delivery of 10 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin in support of a Space Development Agency project in December.
Katalyst Space Technologies planned to launch a demonstration mission of its SDA module in May 2024.
Congress had appropriated $550,000,000 in 2022 for the Space Development Agency missile-tracking demonstration.
The 2023 defense appropriations bill adds $216,000,000 for launch services to accelerate deployment of the Space Development Agency’s missile warning and missile-tracking satellites.
More than $500,000,000 of the increase to the Space Force budget is for the Space Development Agency.
The 2023 defense appropriations bill adds $51,000,000 for experiments related to the Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency is acquiring hundreds of satellites and associated ground systems for a low Earth orbit constellation to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles and to support a mesh network of communications satellites.
The Space Development Agency was formed inside the Pentagon in 2019 and transferred to the U.S. Space Force on 2022-10-01.