The U.S. Space Force has awarded 20 small enterprises positions on a potential $1 billion contract to develop a next-generation ground system for military satellites, SpaceNews reported Friday.
Rapid Resilient Command and Control is a small business set-aside program that seeks to build a ground system on a commercial cloud architecture to support space operations missions, such as maneuvering military space assets in response to threats.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office will use the multi-year R2C2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to issue task orders for software tools and infrastructure designed to enable the service branch’s operators to reposition satellites and perform other operations in a more agile manner.
Through R2C2, the Space RCO said it will procure software systems in “bite-sized” pieces and expects to award the initial task orders in the next few months.
The awardees are:
- a.i. solutions
- Aalyria Technologies
- Defense Unicorns
- FTI – Frontier Technology
- Giuseppe Engineering
- Infinity Systems Engineering
- IS4S – Integrated Solutions for Systems
- NewSat North America
- Northstrat
- Omitron
- Omni Federal
- Pacific Crest Alliance
- Picogrid
- Quantum Research International
- Raft
- Rogue Space Systems
- Sphinx Defense
- Systems & Technology Research
- TapHere! Technology
- True Anomaly
