
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The nascent Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to reach initial operating capability for several new space-based sensor layers within the next five years, the agency’s acting director said Sept. 18. The SDA has identified eight capabilities that are necessary to fight and win a war in space, and then conceptualized six space-based layers and one ground-based layer to be developed to enable those capabilities, Derek Tournear said in a media roundtable Wednesday at the Air Force…