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ATI received a five-year contract to manage SpEC in November 2017.
The Space Enterprise Consortium uses special contracting authorities to solicit bids from member companies and ensure projects are awarded to nontraditional military vendors.
All Space Enterprise Consortium projects are awarded under the Other Transaction Authority model, which creates partnerships in which the government and vendors agree to share development costs.
The Air Force raised the ceiling for Space Enterprise Consortium Other Transaction Authority contracts to $500,000,000.
The Space Enterprise Consortium has awarded more than 50 prototype projects to date.
The Air Force selected Advanced Technology International of Charleston, South Carolina in November 2017 to manage the Space Enterprise Consortium.
Advanced Technology International was awarded a five-year agreement to oversee up to $100,000,000 worth of Space Enterprise Consortium projects.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center posted a Request for Information for the Space Enterprise Consortium on 2019-08-20.
The three teams designed FORGE prototypes under cost-sharing Other Transaction Authority contracts managed by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium.
Aerospace Corp. is working with SMC’s Space Enterprise Consortium to design a standard interface for vendors to ensure payloads are compatible with buses.
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) was awarded a contract by the Administrator of the Space Enterprise Consortium under the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI program to deliver and test a Link 16-capable Low Earth Orbit spacecraft.
Since early 2017, SpEC has awarded 37 prototype projects with a total value of $206,000,000.
Annual SpEC membership dues range from $7,500 for large companies to $500 for small businesses, academic institutions, and nonprofits.
The Air Force increased SpEC’s budget fivefold to $500,000,000 in 2019.
Blue Canyon Technologies was selected by the Air Force through SpEC three weeks after submitting a proposal to work on Tetra, a program exploring missions, tactics, techniques, and procedures for microsatellites in geosynchronous orbit.
One SpEC solicitation in early 2019 sought ways to give military units quick access to national space systems through a program called Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities.
The Air Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium was established in 2017 to attract startups and commercial companies and bring new space technology into defense programs.
SpEC has been authorized to fund nearly $400,000,000 in additional projects over the next four years.
Projects planned for fiscal year 2019 under SpEC included space situational awareness, navigational user equipment, space weather sensors, software processing, and a potential requirement from the U.S. Army.
The Pentagon approved a $500,000,000 spending ceiling for SpEC as the total prototype throughput of the agreement over five years.