Space Technology Development and Prototyping
Abstract
SDA is responsible for developing and demonstrating the next generation space architecture to enable U.S. military operations to be responsive to emerging multi-domain threats against our national security. To achieve that goal, SDA will help inform the Department of Defense (DoD)'s decision to develop and implement a proliferated architecture enabled by lower-cost, mass-produced spacecraft and routine space access; shift the DoD to a development organization focused on experimentation, prototyping, and accelerated fielding. SDA will manage, direct, and execute the development of the space capabilities for the joint warfighter in accordance with DoD’s Space Vision and field space capabilities at speed and scale, with the following goals: •Bold breakthroughs designed to out-pace our competitors, •Technology maturation and systems engineering, •Lean engineering, manufacturing, and support, •Industrial base expansion; streamlined development and acquisition process, and •Increased acquisition cooperation with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). SDA will rapidly deploy critical elements of next-generation space capabilities, initially focusing on these essential capabilities: •Persistent global surveillance for advanced missile targeting, •Indications, warnings, targeting, and tracking for defense against advanced missile threats, •Alternate position, navigation, and timing (PNT) for a GPS-denied environment, •Global and near-real time space situational awareness, •Responsive, resilient, common ground-based space support infrastructure (e.g., ground stations and launch capability), •Cross-domain, networked, node-independent battle management command, control, and communications (BMC3), and •Highly-scaled, low-latency, persistent, artificial intelligence-enabled global surveillance. The establishment of a data transport layer in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is essential to developing a new, responsive space architecture, and will be SDA’s primary initial focus within the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA). SDA will develop an initial set of sub-constellations on this Transport Layer to provide additional capabilities, such as advanced missile warning. This program element funds efforts to develop and demonstrate a prototype proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) communications and data transport layer and its sub-constellations in support of the DoD Space Vision.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 1206410SDA_4_0400_PB_2022
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2021 Directed Reduction in the amount of $11.300 million was for unjustified launch costs. The $10.000 million Directed Transfer moved funding to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program. The FY 2022 Economic Assumption / Inflation Adjustment is an adjustment for non-pay, non-fuel purchases based on the revised Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rates provided by the Office of Management and Budget. The $35.000 million reduction in FY 2022 reflects a transfer to fund the HBTSS program under the MDA Program Element (PE) 1206895C. This transfer of funds impacts the Optical Intersatellite Link (OISL) interoperability testing and tracking demonstration plans increasing schedule and technical risk of the Transport and Tracking Tranche 0 effort.
- Service Agency Name
- Space Development Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Space Development Agency
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