Greg Caicedo, a more than two-decade business executive, has rejoined Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) as vice president of space domain awareness and space superiority, he announced in a LinkedIn post. He brings to the role his expertise and experience in space systems acquisition and operations, business development, strategic ...
The Space Development Agency has begun soliciting industry proposals for the development of approximately 54 prototype satellites to enable the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer. SDA will procure infrared sensor-equipped space vehicles using other transaction authority and send the vehicles to six orbital pl...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received $1.5 billion in prototype agreements from the Space Development Agency to develop and operate 72 Beta satellites for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA said Monday the PWSA Tranche 1 Transport Layer Beta prototype sat...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has wrapped up the critical design review of its satellites and related ground systems for the first tranche of the transport layer as part of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. The CDR phase included a system optical communications terminal interoperability test and design valida...
As competition ramps up in space, the evolving domain has taken center stage among U.S. Department of Defense priorities. Ensuring dominance in this novel warfighting environment requires a number of new capabilities, but to keep pace with adversaries, they must be developed and deployed more quickly than ever before. Tasked with developing, fi...
The Space Development Agency has issued a solicitation for other transaction agreement proposals to build a space vehicle variant for the second tranche of its planned transport layer for a proliferated constellation of satellites in low-Earth orbit. SDA intends to work with small businesses and wants the involvement of at least one nonprofit resear...
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for its planned procurement of space vehicles under the Tranche 2 Transport Layer program. SDA is looking to award an other transaction authority to more than one vendor to support the development and deployment of 54 or more spacecraft with infrared sensors in six orbital planes...
The Space Development Agency is asking industry for information on space payloads for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA expects the Transport Layer Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System to be composed of about 20 spacecraft configured into several variants and designed to t...
U.S. space agencies are gearing up for a launch-filled summer as some of the country’s most highly-anticipated and promising programs make important progress. The rise in government launches in recent months mirrors the exponential growth of the commercial space industry and aligns with a speed-focused strategy set in motion by the Air Force’s a...
In a government contracting ecosystem often defined by bureaucratic processes and long timelines, the Space Development Agency has built a refreshing reputation of speed, agility and innovation. As the race for space superiority intensifies, more and more GovCon companies and federal agencies are noticing SDA’s success and looking to adopt the age...
