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...
The Space Development Agency is seeking proposals for a program to build and deploy satellite prototypes for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s tracking layer. SDA expects the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer to help detect, identify and track hypersonic weapons and other advanced missile threats and will award other transactio...
The Space Development Agency is planning to issue a solicitation in the coming weeks for a layer of low-Earth orbit satellites that will track adversarial missiles. SDA is expected to award contracts to two or more vendors for 28 spacecraft that will comprise the agency’s tracking layer of Tranche 1, which is slated to begin launching...
The Space Development Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and York Space Systems prototype agreements valued at approximately $1.8 billion combined to build and demonstrate 126 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Transport Layer is exp...
On Wednesday, top executive officials from federal space agencies and industry spoke on optimizing acquisition processes, accelerating technology innovation and creating more interoperable systems in the wake of massive space sector reorganization and reinvigoration efforts during GovCon Wire Events’ Space Acquisition Forum. Following an ...
The Space Development Agency is seeking a contractor to establish the ground infrastructure that will support SDA’s future missile detection and tracking satellite constellation. Interested parties should provide the agency electronic proposals for the design, development and delivery of Tranche 1 operations and integration segment, according ...
