SDA Seeks Proposals for Tranche 3 Tracking Layer (T3TRK) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)
Posted On: April 7, 2025 Responses Due: May 22, 2025 SDA seeks industry proposals for the Tranche 3 Tracking Layer (T3TRK) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This Other Transaction Authority (OT) solicitation for T3TRK will accelerate the capability to provide global, persistent indications, detection, warning, tracking, and identification of conventional and advanced missile…
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SDA Issues Special Notice Seeking PWSA Ground Segment and AppFac Transition Studies
Posted On: March 27, 2025 Responses Due: April 14, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking executive summaries to prepare for 180-day studies on evolving the current Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) ground segment (GS) and the Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) software application factory (AppFac). SDA is interested in industry’s perspective…
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SDA Issues Solicitation to Recompete 10 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Gamma Variant Space Vehicles
Posted On: March 7, 2025 Responses Due: April 22, 2025 SDA seeks industry submissions to recompete 10 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Gamma variant space vehicles. This solicitation is for the Gamma (γ) variant of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) to be executed by the Advanced Fire Control (AFC) Program. AFC delivers operationally relevant prototypes…
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SDA Issues Request for Information for PWSA Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) Multi-Mission Module (M3) Interface
Posted On: March 7, 2025 Responses Due: April 11, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) seeks industry feedback on in-space Battle Management, Command, Control and Communications (BMC3) Multi-Mission Module (M3) interface documentation to inform SDA’s future BMC3 M3 solicitations. SDA is releasing this request for information (RFI) to assist in the development and refinement of…
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Interview With Space Development Agency’s Chief Of Contracts, Christopher Glista
Date: March 3, 2025 | Outlet: Defense Acquisition University Magazine | By: Emily Ashcom and Benjamin Tyree Christopher Glista, Chief of Contracts for the Space Development Agency (SDA), is responsible for the daily operation of SDA’s contracting cell and advises agency leadership on acquisition planning and provides contracting support for SDA business operations. Under his…
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SDA Issues Special Notice Seeking Iron Dome for America Architecture Studies
Posted On: February 10, 2025 Responses Due: February 28, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking executive summaries to prepare for 60-day studies on an “Iron Dome for America” architecture and capability. SDA is interested in industry’s perspective on implementing the Iron Dome for America architecture, with particular focus on enhancing the Proliferated Warfighter…
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SDA Requests Industry Feedback on Tranche 3 Tracking Layer Draft Solicitation
Posted On: January 31, 2025 Responses Due: February 28, 2025 The Space Development Agency is seeking industry feedback for delivery of the Tranche 3 Tracking Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The T3 Tracking Layer will accelerate delivery from low Earth orbit of global, persistent indications, detection, warning, tracking, and identification of conventional…
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SDA Seeks Industry Input on Optical Communication Terminal Standard Update
Posted On: January 24, 2025 Responses Due: February 4, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) seeks industry feedback on releasing an intermediate Optical Communication Terminal (OCT) Standard between v3.1.0 and v4.0.0 to reduce risk in the upcoming Tranche 3 solicitations of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This request for information (RFI) will inform SDA…
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SDA Requests Industry Feedback on Tranche 3 Transport Layer Upsilon Variant Draft Solicitation
Posted On: January 23, 2025 Responses Due: February 10, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) released a draft solicitation for the Tranche 3 (T3) Transport Layer Upsilon (T3TLυ) space vehicle variant of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This draft solicitation seeks industry input ahead of the final solicitation to select space industry builder-operator teams…
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Space Development Agency Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC) Broad Agency Announcement
Posted On: January 15, 2025 Original Date Offers Due: January 14, 2026 Through this updated Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), SDA is soliciting executive summaries, invited proposal abstracts, and invited proposals for novel architecture concepts, systems, technologies, and capabilities that enable leap-ahead improvements for future tranches of the agency’s Proliferated…
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SDA to Host By-Invite Industry Day for HALO Pool Vendors and Prospective Payload Providers to discuss Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation (T2DES) Europa Prototype Order
Posted on: December 20, 2024 Industry Day: February 10-11, 2025 Responses to Special Notice Due: January 22, 2025 The Space Development Agency, in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, will host an industry day for Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) pool members and invited potential payload providers February 10-11, 2025 in Lexington,…
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SDA Publishes Request for Proposals for Tranche 3 Program Integration
Posted On: December 13, 2024 Responses Due: January 31, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) released a final request for proposals for the Tranche 3 Program Integration (T3PI) effort of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This solicitation seeks industry proposals to provide systems engineering and integration activities supporting the T3 program, which will extend…
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Link 16 tactical data link communication via space: ‘A ground-breaking development’
Date: Dec. 6, 2024 | Outlet: FFI Norwegian Foreign Defense Research Establishment | By: FFI Staff Report ‘This is a game-changing capability, and we’re just getting started!’ says Major Tyler Levy at FFI, leader of a test where Norwegian F-35s and P-8s communicated over a Link 16 network via satellites in space. ‘The unique thing…
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SDA Selects Vendor to Deliver Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure
Date: Nov. 12, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Space Development Agency (SDA) today announced a contract for Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure (AFCGI) to support demonstrations and potential future operations under the agency’s Advanced Fire Control (AFC) effort. The cost-plus award fee contract worth a maximum of approximately $117 million was awarded to Kratos Technology…
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SDA Requests Industry Feedback on Tranche 3 Integration Draft Request for Proposals
Posted On: Nov. 8, 2024 Responses Due: Noon ET, Nov. 25, 2024 The Space Development Agency (SDA) released a draft request for proposals for the Tranche 3 (T3) Integration effort of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This draft RFP seeks industry input ahead of selecting a vendor to provide systems engineering and integration activities…
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SDA Selects Initial HALO Pool to Rapidly Compete Future Prototype Demonstrations
Date: Oct. 23, 2024 Non-traditional space companies form the initial pool of 19 offerors WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Space Development Agency (SDA) today announced it has selected 19 non-traditional space companies to join the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit, or HALO, pool, an acquisition approach to solicit and rapidly award protype demonstrations and…
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SDA Posts Tranche 3 Industry Planning Notice
Posted On: October 2, 2024 The Space Development Agency (SDA) released a planning notice for Tranche 3 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). This top-level solicitation timeline allows industry to plan to compete for upcoming acquisitions, in addition to supporting improved and more focused proposal responses. SDA’s Tranche 3 programs will provide sustained capability…
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SDA Makes Commercial Disposal Services Study Awards Under STEC BAA
Date: Sept. 26, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced today it recently selected six proposals for funding under the Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). SDA awarded a total of approximately $1.9 million in both contracts and agreements to the following companies to conduct 90-day feasibility studies…
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SDA demos laser links crucial for future SATCOM, missile tracking network
Date: September 4, 2024 | Outlet: Breaking Defense | By: Theresa Hitchens WASHINGTON — Space Development Agency (SDA) Director Derek Tournear announced today that the agency has successfully demonstrated the ability of its optical communications terminals to link satellites together — a capability that he has acknowledged as the longest pole in the tent for its planned mesh network…
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SDA Makes Awards to Build 20 Gamma Variant Satellites for Tranche 2 Transport Layer
Date: Aug. 16, 2024 New prime entrant joins next round of Tranche 2 team members to produce variants of data relay and tactical communication space vehicles WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Space Development Agency (SDA) today announced the awards of two prototype agreements with a total value of approximately $424 million to build and operate 20…
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