GovCon Wire

SDA Awards $1.8B in Tranche 1 Transport Layer Prototype Agreements to 3 Vendors; Derek Tournear Quoted

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 ...
Aviation Week

SDA Looks To Break Tranche 2 Transport Layer Into Three Variants

The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to break up the Tranche 2 Transport Layer of its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), aiming to send 216 space vehicles in three variants to ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Terran Orbital’s Tyvak Awarded $254 million Prototype Agreement for Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Gamma for Space Development Agency

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., Irvine, California (a Terran Orbital Corporation) (NYSE: LLAP) (“Terran Orbital” or the “Company”), a global leader in ...
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, ...