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 navigation warfare (NAVWAR) resilient 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, 2023
- Source ID
- 1206410SDA_4_0400_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2021 funding in the amount of $6.741 million was transferred to SBIR/STTR PE 0605502SDA. FY 2022 Congressional marks resulted in a net gain of $568.000 million. Project 001 (Transport) was increased by $12.000 million to develop a laser communication router demonstration system and decreased by $12.000 million for the Congressional Directed Transfer to SDA’s Procurement PE (1203953SDA - Line Item NSSL01) for Tranche 1 launch. Project 001 also includes a transfer of $20.000 million from SDA Tranche 1 satellite cost savings to be used for SDA Tranche 1 launch Integration. Project 002 (Sensing) was increased by $550.000 million to develop a Missile Tracking demonstration (Tracking Layer) in support of USINDOPACOM’s needs. Project 003 (Integration and Battle Management) was increased by $18.000 million for the Space Networking Centers in Redstone Arsenal, AL and Grand Forks, ND. Starting in FY 2023, the program and funding for PE 1206410SDA has been transferred to Appropriation 3620, RDT&E, Space Force, PE 1206410SF.
- Service Agency Name
- Space Development Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Space Development Agency
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