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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.
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Posted On: September 20, 2024 Response Date: October 21, 2024 by 5 p.m. ET The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking full proposals for studies and modeling and simulation of a “Network Orchestration” capability that would support data transport among the SDA Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), commercial satellite networks, and other space-based data transport…
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Posted On: August 21, 2024 Submissions Open: September 18, 2024 Closing Date: October 16, 2024, noon ET The U.S. Air Force AFWERX pre-released its 24.3C Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) topics, including opportunities to present novel and innovative technology for leap-ahead improvements for future tranches…
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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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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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Posted On: June 28, 2024 Response Date: July 29, 2024, noon ET SDA released a request for information (RFI) to gather input for the Tranche 3 (T3) Tracking Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The RFI provides an opportunity for industry to review and offer feedback in advance of solicitation posting. The T3…
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Posted on: June 20, 2024 Response Date: Aug. 05, 2024, noon ET The Space Development Agency (SDA) today issued a final request for proposal for Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure (AFCGI). This solicitation was formerly known as PGI (PWSA Futures Ground Integration). AFCGI will deliver integrated space and ground elements that will demonstrate advanced fire…
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Posted on: May 31, 2024 Industry Day: June 17, 2024 Original Response Date: July 11, 2024 SDA released a solicitation using other transaction authority (OTA) for the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) effort, the winners of which will be eligible to compete for future prototype orders. HALO is an acquisition approach to solicit and…
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Posted On: May 20, 2024 Initial Response Date: June 19, 2024 Closing Date: May 19, 2025 The Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a Broad Agency Announcement (HQ085024S0002) calling for white papers and subsequent invited proposals for containerized software application concepts for battle management of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). These applications will offer substantial…
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Date: May 3, 2024 | Outlet: Payload | By: Jacqueline Feldscher A five-year-old agency within the Pentagon founded with a mandate to move quickly is stimulating investments that make the entire small sat industrial base more resilient and scalable, according to half a dozen top industry execs. While the Pentagon is known for delayed timelines…
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Date: April 30, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Space Development Agency (SDA) today announced an award using Other Transaction Authority (OTA) with a total potential value of approximately $414 million to build eight satellites, for launch in first quarter fiscal year 2027, to accelerate fire-control capability for global detection, warning, and precision tracking of advanced…
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