Recently, the Space Development Agency (SDA) issued awards totaling $1.6 million for a study to be completed over 90 days that will examine and analyze potential, LEO, backhaul capabilities.
This award was received by Aalyria Technologies, Inc. (a spin-off from Google); Kuiper Government Solutions, LLC; and Space Explorations Technology Corp (SpaceX).
The studies will examine connecting commercial or other existing LEO systems to the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) to provide further resiliency by quickly moving broadband data between edge and main networks worldwide and to give the PWSA Transport Layer the greater ability to transmit and receive general, high-bandwidth data across its systems.
These awards were made under the Space Development Agency’s System, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities (STEC) Broad Agency Announcement that are based on a special notice that was posted in late May of this year by the agency.