WHO WE ARE
Speed. Delivery. Agility.
Recognized as the Department of Defense's constructive disruptor for space acquisition, the Space Development Agency (SDA) will quickly deliver needed space-based capabilities to the joint warfighter to support terrestrial missions through development, fielding, and operation of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. SDA capitalizes on a unique business model that values speed and lowers costs by harnessing commercial development to achieve a proliferated architecture and enhance resilience. SDA will deliver a minimum viable product - on time, every two years- by employing spiral development methods, adding capabilities to future generations as the threat evolves.
CAPABILITY LAYERS
Date: June 24, 2025 SDA delivers first of 12 risk reduction satellites on orbit for experimentation and demonstration WASHINGTON, D.C.– The Space Development Agency today announced the successful launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, of the first prototype among 12 risk reduction satellites comprising the Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System (T1DES) constellation that…
Date: May 8, 2025 | Outlet: Space News | By: Sandra Erwin WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is ramping up efforts to bring commercial technology into military systems, betting that private-sector speed and innovation can help modernize U.S. defense programs, especially in space. This push could increase the demand for so-called “mission integrators”—engineering firms that specialize…
Science Applications International Corp., Reston, Virginia, was awarded a $54,908,584 cost-plus-award-fee contract for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche Three program integration effort. This contract provides for system engineering and integration support activities enabling the delivery of the tranche 3 space vehicles for transport, tracking, and custody layers and their integration within the proliferated warfighter space…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…