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The Missile Defense Agency requested $157,000,000 for 2020 to continue studying a space architecture for hypersonic missile defense.
SPI will pay $34,100,000 in combined restitution to NASA, the Missile Defense Agency, and commercial customers.
SPI will pay an additional $6,000,000 to NASA and $5,000,000 to the Missile Defense Agency as part of a separate civil settlement.
The Missile Defense Agency has been studying options to deploy a space sensor layer for hypersonic detection, and the Department of Defense currently has no official requirement to develop such a layer.
Fred Kennedy's memo estimates that as many as 20 civilian and 15 military positions could be reduced at the Missile Defense Agency, which employs 2,900 government personnel.
The Missile Defense Agency launched two Northrop Grumman-made STSS satellites into low-Earth orbit in 2009.
The Missile Defense Agency plans to select three of the nine contractor submissions 2019 to continue work for another six to nine months.
APT works under contracts to support safety at more than 40 U.S. government agencies, including NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board.
The Missile Defense Agency, working through the Air Force-led Space Enterprise Consortium, awarded $1,000,000 study contracts this summer to nine firms to design concept prototypes for a space sensor layer.
On 2018-09-27, the Missile Defense Agency awarded 21 contracts of $1,000,000 each to seven companies and Draper Laboratories to develop concepts for hypersonic weapon systems intended to shoot down enemy hypersonic missiles.
The Missile Defense Agency asked each company that submitted Space Sensor Layer concept designs to provide rough estimates of cost.
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act adds $140,000,000 to the Missile Defense Agency’s budget for development of hypersonic defense capabilities.
Contractors that received study contracts are scheduled to brief the Missile Defense Agency later 2018-08.
SSL was selected through the Space Enterprise Consortium managed by Advanced Technology International to lead a team that will provide the U.S. Missile Defense Agency with a persistent space layer prototype concept for missile defense.
If funding is approved and plans proceed, the Missile Defense Agency could deploy a space sensor layer by 2025.
The Senate Armed Services Committee directs the U.S. Air Force and DARPA to work with the Missile Defense Agency to study whether the LEO constellation has the potential to meet MDA’s space-based requirements.
The committee requires the Missile Defense Agency to develop a persistent space-based sensor architecture capable of supporting the ballistic missile defense system and compatible with DARPA efforts on space-based sensors for missile defense.
More than 1,000 employees work in contractor-support roles for the Missile Defense Agency at various locations for Parsons.
The Missile Defense Agency is considering either building out the existing STSS constellation or developing a more distributed architecture of smaller, less expensive satellites.
The Missile Defense Agency operates both STSS satellites and requested $37,000,000 in its 2019 budget for their operations and sustainment.