A senior Space Development Agency official said SDA is advancing a project that seeks to determine whether space-based sensors could replace aircraft and ships in collecting telemetry, GPS signals and other data from ballistic and hypersonic missile tests as part of cost reduction initiatives, Breaking Defense reported Friday. The official told the ...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary will continue to provide information technology modernization support for the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service under a two-year, $100 million contract. Highland Technology will build, maintain and modernize information systems, web services, software applications and databases to help NR...
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for an other transaction authority that would cover the development and integration of battle management command, control and communication software for the national security space posture. SDA said in a SAM.gov notice that it aims to set up BMC3 Application Factory and Integrator, an envi...
The Space Development Agency is seeking information on industry sources that could provide a position, navigation and timing service payload for the second tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA intends to proliferate a low cost L-band PNT service payload on the Tranche 2 Transport Layer, according to a request f...
Denver-based York Space Systems has won a $200 million other transaction prototype agreement from the Space Development Agency to develop 12 satellites and supporting capabilities for the Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System. The company will conduct experimentation and demonstrate Integrated Broadcast Service and tactical satellite co...
Ball Aerospace will build, launch and operate a set of 10 experimental space vehicles and ground systems for the Space Development Agency under a $176 million other transaction prototype agreement. The company will integrate government-furnished payloads into the satellites for deployment in 2024 as part of the National Defense Space Architecture Ex...
The Space Development Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) prototype agreements worth $1.3 billion combined to build and deploy 28 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s tracking layer. The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer is expected to launch beginning in April 2025 ...
U.S. space agencies are prioritizing “integration by design” with mission partners, industry, academia and allied forces to tackle threats and deter adversaries in the largest and most highly contested domain today. Gen. James Dickinson, commander of the U.S. Space Command said the “partnered element” of the command’s approach to mission o...
Xerox (Nasdaq: XRX) will continue to provide managed print and electronic fax services to the Department of Agriculture under a contract worth potentially $164 million over 10 years. The company said Monday it will help USDA manage as many as 16,000 multifunction printers and new devices powered by Xerox’s ConnectKey technology. The award cont...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) have submitted a joint proposal to the Space Development Agency to compete for a contract to manage and operate a $1.8 billion constellation of Transport Layer Tranche 1 satellites in low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Saturday. In January, SDA issued a solicitation for the “gr...
