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Pentagon Says SDA Meeting Minimum Viable Product, But GAO Notes Problems

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

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Pentagon Says SDA Meeting Minimum Viable Product, But GAO Notes Problems

Graphic by Space Development Agency

DoD says that the U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) has met the "minimum viable product" (MVP) standard for the agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 0 Transport Layer communications satellites and Tracking Layer missile warning satellites, but a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that four evaluated contractors for the Tranche 0 satellites have only met standards four times out of 32 in eight optical communications terminal (OCT) categories. SpaceX hit the mark three times--in the category of…

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