Space Development Agency

Launch your career with #TeamSDA! SDA is seeking a candidate to serve as a General Engineer, responsible for performing mission analysis, capability requirements allocation analysis; and plan, execute, and lead Modeling and Simulation to develop requirements and evaluate architectures across the mission areas included in the SDA architecture. https://lnkd.in/ew4G7bYk Check out the job listing for more details. If you want to join one of the most dynamic government agencies in the galaxy, put in your application by Tuesday, 5 November. #SemperCitius #Space #Defense #WereHiring

If you weren't at 2024 MilSat Symposium, then you might have missed the exciting news announced by SDA Director, Derek Tournear. Check out SatNews' article to watch the full keynote on what's new with SDA and why we are excited about the 19 non-traditional space companies that were recently selected to join the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (HALO) pool, to rapidly compete to build and fly future prototype demonstrations. https://lnkd.in/g8Br2rHK Thank you to the MilSat Symposium for inviting SDA to participate in the Next-Gen Space Defense discussions! #SemperCitius #Defense #Industry #PWSA #MilSat2024 #Satellites

More constructive disruption from SDA! Today, SDA announced 19 non-traditional space companies that make up the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO), or HALO, pool, an acquisition approach to solicit and rapidly award protype demonstrations and experimentation to support future tranches of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (#PWSA). This marks the first time SDA has used this type of solicitation to select a pool of performers. Future prototype orders under HALO will focus on rapid end-to-end mission demonstrations with launch of two identical satellites 12-18 months after award. The first planned prototype orders in HALO are for the Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System (T2DES) projects, which will reduce risk for future tactical data links and optical communication missions. Pool members selected include: 1. Airbus US Space & Defense, Inc. 2. Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing 3. AST SpaceMobile 4. Astro Digital 5. Capella Space 6. CesiumAstro 7. Firefly Aerospace 8. Geneva Technologies, Inc. 9. Impulse Space 10. Kepler Communications Inc. 11. Amazon Project Kuiper 12. LeoStella 13. Momentus 14. Muon Space 15. NovaWurks, Inc. 16. SpaceX - Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 17. TURION SPACE 18. Terran Orbital Corporation 19. York Space Systems LLC Congrats to all the HALO pool awardees! For more information, read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/dp-tVec3 #Space #Defense #SemperCitius #Industry #NewSpace

But wait…there’s more! If you’ve been keeping an eye on our acquisition plans for Tranche 3 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (#PWSA), we’re not quite done! SDA expects to release Tranche 3 Integration solicitations in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 to allow for forecasting and #industry planning. Additionally, SDA is contemplating a PWSA Enterprise Ground effort which will be competed in the future. SDA will provide an updated announcement when more details are available. In the meantime, more detailed info about Tranche 3 acquisition opportunities is available upon request in a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) package. Instructions for requesting the CUI information can be found on Sam.gov here: https://lnkd.in/eWySv7ad #SemperCitius #Defense #Satellites #opportunities

SDA recently posted a notice to allow #industry to plan for upcoming Tranche 3 opportunities. SDA expects to release the first Tranche 3 Tracking draft solicitations in early second quarter of fiscal year 2025 and in final form in late 3rd quarter. We expect to make up to three T3 Tracking awards for global missile warning, missile tracking and missile defense efforts. The Tracking Layer is a proliferated constellation with, ultimately, more than 100 space vehicles (SVs) in low-Earth orbit (LEO) with space-borne capabilities designed to detect and track infrared signatures of conventional and advanced missile threats. The Tracking Layer will provide global, persistent indications, detection, warning, tracking, and identification of conventional and advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems. For more details on our upcoming Tranche 3 opportunities, visit the industry notice on Sam.gov here: https://lnkd.in/eWySv7ad #SemperCitius #Defense #Satellites #Opportunities

If you are attending next week's MilSat Symposium in Mountain View, stop by SDA Director, Derek Tournear's, keynote on Wednesday, October 23rd at 2:00 p.m. PST. We are looking forward to seeing you there! #SemperCitius #PWSA #Defense #Industry #MilSat2024

Thank you to the Potomac Officers Club for inviting SDA to participate in the 2024 GovCon International Summit. Our Technical Director, Frank Turner, always loves an opportunity to talk about the SDA mission and this year's panel discussed "The New Space Race: Can technology keep up with the threat?" #SemperCitius #Defense #Industry #PWSA

We're always looking up-- but we never forget the ground! Bringing things down to earth is SDA’s critical Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture ground segment. A critical element of any space architecture, especially the #PWSA. The PWSA ground segment provides continuous, 24/7 operational support to the PWSA space segment and is operated by SDA’s two Operation Centers located in Grand Forks, ND and Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Additionally, the PWSA ground segment includes the necessary hardware and software framework to host battle management command, control, communications (#BMC3) functionality for mission-specific processing, and execution of on-orbit and on-the-ground applications. To read more on SDAs ground segment check out the new factsheet on our SDA Resources webpage here: https://lnkd.in/ggX8D7HP You can also follow our Tranche 3 planning notifications for possible opportunities surrounding PWSA Enterprise Ground efforts in fiscal year 2025 and beyond. #SemperCitius #Satellies #GrandForks #RedstoneArsenal #Defense

Last week, SDA posted a notice to #industry to allow for planning ahead of Tranche 3 competitive opportunities. SDA’s Tranche 3 programs will provide sustained capability with advanced improvements over Tranche 2 plus future #warfighting applications. More specifically, Tranche 3 Transport Layer (T3TL) serves to advance the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s (#PWSA) Data Transport and Navigation capabilities with three mission-specific variants that each serve multiple capabilities. SDA expects to release the first T3TL draft solicitation in early second quarter of fiscal year 2025 for the T3TL Upsilon variant and a final T2TL Upsilon solicitation early in the 3rd quarter; we expect to make up to two awards for this variant. Additional solicitations will include the T3TL Sigma variant and T3TL Lambda variant, with both variants anticipating up to two awards. Details about each variant will be provided in the forthcoming documents and solicitations. For more details on our upcoming Tranche 3 opportunities, visit the industry notice on Sam.gov here: https://lnkd.in/eWySv7ad

Don't forget the AFWERX 24.3C Small Business Innovation Research (#SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (#STTR) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) closes soon-- October 16th at noon ET! Under that BAA, SDA released a special topic, STTR Phase I - SF24C-T003 - Strengthening Space: Uniting Research and Innovation for PWSA, which will allow companies to apply for a larger Phase 1 STTR followed by a larger Phase II SBIR effort. SDA plans to select five companies for Phase 1 followed by a down-select of three companies for Phase II. For more information on the special topic and instructions, visit SDA's Opportunities page: https://lnkd.in/eQ3EHhde #SemperCitius #SmallBusiness #Industry #Defense #PWSA