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SDA Expects Imminent Contract Award for More Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Beta Satellites

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SDA Expects Imminent Contract Award for More Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Beta Satellites
Last month, the Space Development Agency said that three York Space Systems' satellites had demonstrated the first transmission of Link 16 from space to Earth, in this case to a non-U.S. Five Eyes' nation (York Space Systems Photo)

The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded contracts to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] for 72 Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Beta satellites and expects to award a contract soon to another vendor for more than a dozen T2TL-Beta satellites, SDA Director Derek Tournear said on Dec. 7. "We are looking at putting another approximately 18 satellites on contract, and we're working with a third vendor to do that, and we should make that announcement shortly," he…

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