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 consideration for an additional revision (v3.2.0) to its OCT Standard to publish alongside OCT standard v4.0.0.  OCT Standard v3.2.0 would include critical updates from v3.1.0 and new requirements defined in v4.0.0 not specific to the burst-mode waveform implementation. SDA intends for v3.2.0 to be the standard of record for Tranche 3, with a smaller, select number of Tranche 3 optical terminals compliant with v4.0.0. As such, SDA strongly encourages industry vendors to provide feedback on v3.2.0 via responses to this RFI.

All responses received to this RFI are solely for information and planning purposes and may or may not be used to support future solicitations or standards. 

For a detailed description and submission instructions, check out the full RFI.