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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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