The Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced a $1.5 billion award to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to develop and operate satellites making up the Tranche 2 transport layer (T2TL) of SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) program. […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded a trio of contractors a total of $1.8 billion of contracts to build a mesh network of interconnected space satellites that will form the basis of a high-volume data communications system expected to make up the “backbone” of its Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) network, SDA said in a release. […]

Vice President Pence said today that the Trump administration and the Defense Department are preparing to move forward with detailed plans to establish a new United States Space Command as a unified combatant command, and if Congress approves, as a separate branch of the military–dubbed the U.S. Space Force – equal to and separate from the existing five branches. […]

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