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Space

DoD Innovation Unit Issues New Hybrid Space Architecture Solicitation

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

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DoD Innovation Unit Issues New Hybrid Space Architecture Solicitation

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday issued a solicitation for a hybrid space architecture (HSA) that integrates commercial space sensor and communications capabilities with government space systems for rapid military, civil, and commercial communications across all domains while using commercial best practices for securing and defending the network. The DIU wants commercial solutions, open standards, and software-defined networking for the integration of the commercial and government systems. “This HSA will provide secure, assured, low latency, and multi-path communications across…

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