Nine companies hold spots on a U.S. Air Force indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth $360 million over nine years to carry out construction projects at Barksdale AF Base in Louisiana. The 2nd Contracting Squadron received 21 bids for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition pr...
The Space Development Agency has released a draft solicitation for the development of space vehicles, payloads and ground systems for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov states that the Tranche 2 Transport Layer program will include three optical communication terminals; Ka-band mi...
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...
