MODERNIZING THE MILITARY'S SPACE ARCHITECTURE

WHO WE ARE

The Space Development Agency orchestrates the development and fielding of DoD's future threat-driven National Defense Space Architecture. SDA uses novel approaches to accelerate the military space capabilities necessary to ensure U.S. technological and military advantage in space for national defense.

CAPABILITY LAYERS

TRANSPORT LAYER

SDA's Transport Layer will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and communications connectivity worldwide to a full range of warfighter platforms.

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BATTLE MANAGEMENT LAYER

SDA's Battle Management Layer will provide architecture tasking, mission command and control, and data dissemination to support time-sensitive kill chain closure at campaign scales.

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TRACKING LAYER

SDA's Tracking Layer will provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems.

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CUSTODY LAYER

SDA's Custody Layer will provide 24/7, all-weather custody of time-sensitive, left-of-launch surface mobile targets to support targeting for advanced weapons.

 

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EMERGING CAPABILITIES (DETERRENCE) LAYER

SDA's Emerging Capabilities Layer will incubate new mission concepts. Initial focus will be to deter hostile action in deep space (beyond Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) up to lunar distances).

 

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NAVIGATION LAYER

SDA's Navigation Layer will provide alternate positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) for Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments.

 

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SUPPORT LAYER

SDA's Support Layer will enable ground and launch segments to support a responsive space architecture.

 

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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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