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Redwire was awarded a $44 million phase 2 contract during the fourth quarter of 2025 to advance the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Otter mission leveraging Redwire’s SabreSat.
DARPA, the U.S. Space Force, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, Portal, Orbit Fab, CisLunar Industries, DPhi, and Solstar Space are manifested to fly payloads on Vigoride 7.
DARPA selected Mithril’s product as awardable in its Expedited Research Implementation Series (ERIS), qualifying it for acquisition by the U.S. government.
Victoria Coleman’s career spans the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, and Intel.
NASA, MDA Space, and DARPA considered orbital refueling schemes in past decades.
NASA and DARPA are prototyping a lunar positioning, navigation, and timing system often described as a "Moon-GPS".
In the Pulling Guard program's second phase the system will be integrated with operational launchers and effectors to support live operations and allow Raytheon and DARPA to demonstrate end-to-end detection, tracking, and engagement of representative maritime threats.
Diffraqtion plans to transition its quantum cameras from ground-based demonstrators to a pilot satellite mission following the completion of the DARPA contract in 2027.
The $1.5 million DARPA contract funds 'on-sky' demonstrations using ground-based telescopes as a precursor to deploying quantum camera technology on a dedicated satellite constellation.
Diffraqtion raised $4.2 million in combined pre-seed funding and a DARPA SBIR Phase 2 contract on January 13, 2026.
Diffraqtion has secured a $1.5 million DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase 2 contract.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded BAE Systems’ FAST Labs a $16 million Phase 2 contract for the Oversight program.
Victoria Coleman is the former Director of DARPA and has served as the 37th Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force.
Redwire received a $44 million DARPA award to build an air-breathing spacecraft for a VLEO mission.
DARPA awarded a $44 million contract to Redwire to advance its VLEO Otter mission.
Redwire is working with DARPA to develop capabilities for defense, intelligence, and communications missions in very low Earth orbit (VLEO).
The DARPA project received a stop-work order in April, which interrupted funding restoration efforts.
The project by Petro and her team was launched through DARPA with a timeline of three years.
The DARPA contract is part of the Otter program, which aims to validate VLEO technology through a flight lasting more than a year at an orbital altitude between 90 and 250 km.
Redwire Corporation has been awarded a $44 million phase 2 contract to advance DARPA's Otter very Low Earth Orbit mission.