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The Space Rapid Capabilities Office can award contracts of up to $1,000,000,000 without requiring approval from the Pentagon or a service acquisition executive.
Space Rapid Capabilities Office awarded BlueHalo a $1.4 billion, eight-year contract to replace outdated analog antennas with phased arrays under the SCAR program.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office was modeled after the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, which was established in 2003.
Space RCO began working with Space Systems Command to identify launch opportunities for these payloads in 2019.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is a U.S. Space Force organization that procures and manages classified space systems.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office competitively awarded an Other Transaction Agreement for the Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource program to BlueHalo in Albuquerque, New Mexico for $1,400,000,000 on 2022-05-21.
Space Systems Command completed an evaluation of phased arrays in February 2021 and partnered with the Space Rapid Capabilities Office to share relevant information, knowledge, and lessons learned from that evaluation.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office awarded BlueHalo a $1,400,000,000 eight-year contract to add communications capacity to the ground network used by the U.S. military to command and control its satellites.
On 2022-05-24, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office awarded BlueHalo an other transaction authority contract for the satellite communications augmentation resource program.
Space Rapid Capabilities Office was established by Congress in the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act to enable space acquisitions to move quickly.
The 2022 defense spending bill requests clarification of the roles and responsibilities of senior civilian and uniformed leaders with space responsibilities and asks for an explanation of what space acquisition units do, including the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, Space Development Agency, Space Rapid Capabilities Office, and space programs in the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office and the Space Systems Command report directly to the four-star chief of space operations and receive procurement authorities from the service’s civilian acquisition executive under the secretary of the Air Force.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office was established by congressional mandate in 2018 and has special authorities to accelerate procurements.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office procures classified systems and reports to the chief of the U.S. Space Force.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office was established with congressional help and is two years old while already delivering capabilities at speed.
DoD consolidated some organizations under the Space Force while creating the Space Development Agency and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office to quickly develop new systems.
Space Systems Command will provide select administrative and integration support to the Space Rapid Capabilities Office at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office at Kirtland Air Force Base and the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency will not be part of Space Systems Command but will work closely with the new command.
The Space Force intends for the Space Systems Command to work together with existing organizations including the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Space Development Agency, and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office was established by congressional mandate in November 2018.