Aviation Week

SDA Working To Avoid ‘Vendor Lock’ In Tracking, Transport Layer Awards

The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to ensure that all bidders will have an equal shot at awards under the upcoming Tranche 1 Tracking Layer (T1TL) decision, though another recent SDA award has ...
Aviation Today

Companies’ Perspective on New Data Links and Waveforms Sought for SDA Tranche 3 Transport Layer

The U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Gamma satellites are to include Ultra High Frequency (UHF) S-band connections, an advanced tactical data link, and ...
GovCon Wire

Lockheed, Northrop Secure $1.5B in SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta Prototype Agreements; Derek Tournear Quoted

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 ...
GovCon Wire

SDA Seeks Info on Space Payloads for Transport Layer Tranche 2 Demo, Experimentation System

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 ...
SpaceNews

Northrop Grumman Selected to Build Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to design and build 36 data transport satellites, the first space vehicles in the latest generation of ...
SpaceNews

Lockheed Martin proposes multi-layer space network for missile defense

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon could get far more bang for its missile-defense buck if all the sensor satellites located in different orbits could talk to each other and share data via optical links, ...