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Space

SDA Working Towards IOC for Multiple New Space Capability Layers by FY ‘24

By Vivienne Machi

Friday, September 20th, 2019

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SDA Working Towards IOC for Multiple New Space Capability Layers by FY ‘24

The Space Development Agency's notional space layer architecture as outlined by new director Fred Kennedy April 9, 2019. Image: Vivienne Machi/Staff

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…

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