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Benchmark Space Systems received a two-year, $2,810,000 Air Force Research Laboratory SPRINT award to further develop and test flight-optimized thrusters running on ASCENT fuel.
The U.S. Air Force designed and built the radar sites during the Cold War primarily to detect and track intercontinental ballistic missiles and sea-launched ballistic missiles while also conducting general space surveillance and satellite tracking.
Benchmark Space Systems won a $2,810,000 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to continue development and testing of thrusters running on Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic (ASCENT) fuel.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Umbra a $1,250,000 contract to demonstrate the capabilities of space-based radar sensors to track moving ground targets.
The Department of the Air Force began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018.
The Air Force will work with Umbra on space-based moving target indication under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract dated 2023-08-22.
In 2021, the Air Force and Space Force planned to work with the U.S. intelligence community to pursue a space-based target tracking capability intended to replace JSTARS.
Umbra intends to partner with AFWERX, the broader Department of the Air Force, and other Department of Defense and intelligence community stakeholders to provide affordable spacecraft, ground infrastructure, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology.
AFWERX launched IGNITE, a platform where defense users can search for and interact with thousands of small businesses that have received Department of the Air Force SBIR or STTR awards.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations published a bulletin on 2023-08-18 about foreign intelligence targeting of the U.S. space industry.
GSSAP 2 was one of six Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites built by Northrop Grumman that the U.S. Air Force began launching in 2014.
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018 to expand the range of innovations the DAF funds.
The 2023 Hyperspace Challenge accelerator is funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the SpaceWERX office.
The Department of the Air Force began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018, which expanded the range of innovations eligible for DAF funding.
The Department of the Air Force began offering the Open Topic SBIR/STTR program in 2018.
SCOUT Space was selected by SpaceWERX for a Phase II STTR award in the amount of $$1,500,000 focused on "Robust Cross-Domain Optical Navigation with Space-Based Sensors" to address Department of the Air Force challenges.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to streamline the SBIR and STTR process by accelerating proposal-to-award timelines, expanding the pool of potential applicants, and implementing process improvements in contract execution to reduce bureaucratic overhead.
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, was awarded a $36,000,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a platform-agnostic, Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) SATCOM pod.
GA-ASI demonstrated Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) using the U.S. Air Force’s Project FoX system, which included a touchscreen tablet for fighter cockpits.
Starfish Space secured $1,800,000 from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX technology accelerator to develop its satellite guidance software.