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Antares has secured contracts with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and NASA to advance technology maturation and demonstration.
In April, DIU selected Antares under the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program to supply nuclear power to Department of War installations.
The first launch was a HASTE suborbital hypersonic technology test flight from Wallops Island, Virginia for the Defense Innovation Unit and Missile Defense Agency.
The Prometheus Run mission is associated with the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Rocket Lab successfully launched a suborbital mission with its HASTE launch vehicle for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on November 18, 2025.
The launch was conducted for the Defense Innovation Unit and the Missile Defense Agency to test advanced technologies for missile defense.
The HASTE mission was contracted through DIU's Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) program.
Proceeds from the investment round will fund a NASA-backed test flight of the DART AE vehicle powered by SPARTAN under the US Department of Defense HyCAT program via the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
Aalyria has demonstrated its Spacetime orchestration software platform to the U.S. government as part of the Defense Innovation Unit’s Hybrid Space Architecture.
Fenix Space’s U.S. Department of War customers include the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Space Development Agency (SDA), and National Security Innovation Capital (NSIC).
The Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit will provide $5 million in funding to NUVIEW for the development of LiDAR equipment for satellites through the National Security Innovation Capital initiative.
On 2024-12-18, Viasat was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver networking capability in support of the Replicator initiative to provide highly resilient command and control connectivity across unmanned systems.
Under the DIU ORIENT project award, Viasat will provide a Multi-Domain Uncrewed Secure Integrated Communications (MUSIC) architecture with software-defined networking as the network component to enable seamless and resilient connectivity of autonomous systems using multi-transport pathways.
The March 2024 prototype weather satellite was launched in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the Defense Innovation Unit.
Impulse Space received a $34,500,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Safari office and the Defense Innovation Unit to support Victus Surgo and another TacRS mission.
On the mid-2026 mission, Helios will transport Impulse Space’s smaller Mira vehicle, carrying a commercial optical payload, from low Earth orbit to geostationary transfer orbit on the Victus Surgo mission for the Space Force and the Defense Innovation Unit.
The initial funded value of the DIU award is about $2,000,000 and covers the first phase and part of the second phase of a four-phase contract.
Astra won a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit worth up to $44,000,000 to support development of its Rocket 4 launch vehicle.
Astra plans to raise about $50,000,000 in a new funding round in addition to the DIU contract.
The DIU contract will fund work on industrialization of Astra’s production facilities and other aspects of Rocket 4 development.