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The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking proposals for commercial services to deploy and operate payloads in cislunar space beyond Earth geosynchronous orbit.
Calvelli encouraged space startups to innovate and utilize DoD seed-funding programs like those from SpaceWERX and the Defense Innovation Unit.
SpiderOak was awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit to deliver the company’s OrbitSecure zero-trust protocol on-orbit.
Sierra Space and NanoRacks also received Defense Innovation Unit awards in 2020 to study small, uncrewed space stations in low Earth orbit.
DIU’s prototyping work and demonstrations will support Space Force plans to design and deploy a hybrid communications architecture with additional layers of satellites to increase network resilience.
The Defense Innovation Unit signed agreements on 2022-11-02 with Amazon Web Services, Kuiper Government Solutions, Microsoft Azure Space, and SpiderOak Mission Systems for a project to demonstrate space-based communications using interconnected commercial and government networks.
The Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Air Force selected five companies on 2022-10-26 to help build weather models using data from satellites, aerial sensors, and terrestrial sensors.
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Orbit Fab a $13,300,000 contract to supply hydrazine to a Defense Department spacecraft in geostationary orbit in 2025.
The Defense Innovation Unit is leading a project to develop a hybrid space architecture that integrates satellite communications systems across low, medium, and geostationary orbits.
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Arkisys $17,500,000 in other transaction authority in 2020 to fund a series of projects that include the Applique mission.
Aalyria won an $8,000,000 contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to prototype a network for DIU’s hybrid space architecture program.
Michael Brown is the director of the Defense Innovation Unit and spoke at an Atlantic Council event on 2022-08-24 to discuss the 2022 report.
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) launched the Harmonious Rook prototype project in Fall 2021 to provide scalable, persistent awareness of PNT disruptions globally.
X-Bow Systems will test its additively manufactured solid propellant technology on a second mission sponsored by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Department of Defense Innovation Unit.
The Defense Innovation Unit’s space portfolio previously focused on low Earth orbit capabilities and is now turning more attention toward the geostationary orbit belt approximately 22,0 m above the Equator.
The Defense Innovation Unit instructed M4SS participants to design systems that could be commercialized rather than built to military specifications.
The Defense Innovation Unit is funding space projects intended to spur commercial investments in satellite refueling technologies and support services for geostationary satellites.
The Defense Innovation Unit was established in 2015 to help bring privately funded innovation into military programs.
Private companies that work with the Defense Innovation Unit are required to partially fund projects themselves.
The Defense Innovation Unit aims to ensure the hybrid architecture does not introduce vulnerabilities through increased access points.