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The Pentagon approved a $500,000,000 spending ceiling for SpEC as the total prototype throughput of the agreement over five years.
SpEC has been authorized to fund nearly $400,000,000 in additional projects over the next four years.
The Air Force Space Enterprise Consortium was established in 2017 and given authorities to kick-start projects with less red tape than traditional Pentagon contracting.
The Space Enterprise Consortium awarded 35 contracts in its first 10 months, and the average timeline to award a contract through the consortium is 90 days.
A Space Enterprise Consortium was created in 2018 to attract commercial vendors to bid on military contracts.
The Space Enterprise Consortium has used Other Transaction Authority contracting to support PATS and has awarded 13 projects for prototype technologies.
The Space Enterprise Consortium has roughly 200 members that include small and large businesses, nonprofit organizations, and academic research institutions.
Companies apply for membership in the Space Enterprise Consortium online and pay yearly dues that start at $500 for small businesses and increase for larger firms.
Advanced Technology International received a $100,000,000 contract from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in November to establish and manage the Space Enterprise Consortium.
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.
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.