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SDA Official: ‘We’re Not Going to Pick the Winners. The Winners Are Going To Deliver’

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, May 5th, 2022

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SDA Official: ‘We’re Not Going to Pick the Winners. The Winners Are Going To Deliver’

3D render of planet Earth viewed from space, with night lights in Europe and sun rising over Asia. Blue hue treatment. Elements from NASA (https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/57000/57752/land_shallow_topo_2048.jpg)

The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to use spiral development to field small satellites for military use every two years--a fraction of the time required for large DoD acquisition programs, and SDA is using a biannual "warfighter council" to inform evolving SDA requirements with the participation of military space operators. "The thing that SDA is trying to do that is so different is to meet the number one problem we hear from industry, which is that they don't know what…

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