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The Army will work with the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency, which plans to develop a large communications constellation in LEO known as a transport layer.
Stephen Kitay identified Senate language as problematic because it does not provide the authorities the Department of Defense would need to establish an independent military service.
Senate appropriators funded the Department of Defense’s requested amount of $72,400,000 for the Space Force.
In March, the Pentagon formally established the Space Development Agency to develop, demonstrate, and experiment with technologies and architectures aimed at leapfrogging current space systems.
Spacecraft built for the U.S. Defense Department have exacting standards.
Air Force Space Command took over responsibility in December for procuring the Defense Department’s commercial satellite communications services from the Defense Information Systems Agency.
The Space Development Agency’s $582,000,000 five-year baseline funding is to develop roadmaps for current DoD space programs, fund studies and sensor prototypes for the missile defense tracking layer, and fund studies on space-based interceptors and space-based discrimination.
The Pentagon’s 2020 budget requested nearly $150,000,000 to get the Space Development Agency off the ground, including $44,700,000 for personnel, $20,000,000 for space research and development, and $85,000,000 for space technology prototyping.
The Space Development Agency plans a mesh network called the transport layer of more than 250 satellites to provide global communications services to the U.S. military.
The Australian Department of Defense made an $83,000,000 investment to build regional coverage with Maxar, enabling early operational use of Maxar’s virtual solution.
Maxar is pursuing opportunities to sell satellites to the U.S. Defense Department and to attract new commercial customers and hosted-payload missions using its satellite manufacturing expertise from SSL.
Iridium Communications received a five-year Gateway Evolution indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to upgrade a gateway station dedicated to making its satellite communications services available for the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Pentagon’s 2020 budget request included nearly $150,000,000 to grow the Space Development Agency to approximately 100 engineers, scientists, and support contractors by the following year.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the Defense Department’s Space Test Program-2 mission on 2019-06-25 with 24 satellites.
The Senate appropriators funded the Pentagon’s full request for the Space Development Agency by approving $44,700,000 for SDA staff in the Defense Wide Operations and Maintenance account.
The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee advanced a Fiscal Year 2020 funding bill that provides $622,500,000,000 in base Department of Defense funding, $70,600,000,000 in overseas contingency operations funding, and $1,700,000,000 in emergency funding.
A tactically responsive launch program would complement existing programs such as the $13,000,000 Rocket Systems Launch Program, which is managed by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise and focuses on increasing DoD use of venture-class launch services.
The Pentagon requested $72,000,000 for expenses related to establishing a Space Force.
The subcommittee’s position on providing funding for the Space Development Agency remains unclear, while the Department of Defense requested $105,000,000 for SDA to develop a next-generation space architecture and $44,800,000 for SDA operating costs.
Title 10 of the U.S. Code, enacted in 1956, provides the legal basis for the roles, missions, and organization of the services and the Department of Defense.