U.S. CTO Kratsios named acting undersecretary for research and engineering, Lewis to serve as acting deputy
Date: July 13, 2020 | Outlet: Space News | By: Sandra Erwin WASHINGTON — U.S Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios will serve as acting undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, DoD announced on July 13. Kratsios will take over the position previously held by Mike Griffin. Mark Lewis was named acting deputy undersecretary of…
Space Development Agency Wants to Demonstrate Hardware Before Merging with Space Force
Date: June 18, 2020 | Outlet: Space News | By: Sandra Erwin WASHINGTON — The director of the Space Development Agency Derek Tournear again made the case that the agency needs at least two years to prove its business model before it is merged with the U.S. Space Force. “I would contend that we need…
Department of Defense Releases Defense Space Strategy
Date: June 17, 2020 | Outlet: DoD Press Release Today the Secretary for Defense released the Defense Space Strategy, which identifies how Department of Defense will advance spacepower to be able to compete, deter, and win in a complex security environment characterized by great power competition. “The Defense Space Strategy is the next step to…
Op-ed | The Space Development Agency must be a constructive disruptor
Date: June 15, 2020 | Outlet: Space News | By: Derek Tournear, Mike Griffin and Lisa Porter SDA must be allowed to operate outside of legacy acquisition systems until it has had time to innovate, flourish and deliver. With new plans afoot in both civil and military space, it is an exciting time for those…
Space Development Agency Works Closely with Army, Its Biggest Customer
Date: June 5, 2020 | Outlet: DoD News | By: C. Todd Lopez With the 2019 creation of the Space Force, U.S. Space Command and the Space Development Agency, the Defense Department has a lot riding on space. But the agency’s big focus now is on taking care of its biggest customer — the Army…
Agency Seeks Hypersonic Missile Defense System Proposals
Date: June 8, 2020 | Outlet: Space Daily | By: Ed Adamczyk The U.S. Space Development Agency announced a search for contractors to develop technology to detect and track 3,100-mph hypersonic missiles. The request for proposals, issued last week, calls for “commercial services to launch and support its Tracking Phenomenology Experiment [TPE],”and represents the first…
DoD To Test Laser Communications Terminals in Low Earth Orbit
Date: June 8, 2020 | Outlet: Space News | By: Sandra Erwin The Space Development Agency says optical inter-satellite links are “one of the most critical technologies to be demonstrated.” WASHINGTON — Optical communications terminals that use lasers to beam data across space will be tested in upcoming experiments by the Space Development Agency and…
COVID, OneWeb and how the Space Development Agency has coped
DATE: May 26, 2020 | Outlet: C4ISRNet | By: Nathan Strout In March 2019, the Department of Defense established the Space Development Agency to oversee the creation of a new national security space architecture, one that would forego the traditional U.S. Air Force approach of using a small number of large satellites in higher orbits…
General Hyten Ignites Space Force’s Afterburner With His Newest Initiative
Date: May 18, 2020 | Outlet: Forbes | By: Charles Beames Years before COVID-19 stole national headlines, General Hyten infamously described the satellites he was outfitted with as “big juicy targets,” setting off alarm bells that for many are still ringing. A series of changes have since followed, most notably the creation of the…
Esper Orders SDA To Link C2 Networks For All-Domain Ops
Date: May 6, 2020 | Outlet: Defense News | BY: Theresa Hitchens WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Mark Esper has ordered the military services to look to the Space Development Agency’s developing “data transport” satellites to connect their separate command and control systems for future all-domain operations, says SDA Director Derek Tournear. Speaking at a webinar…