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SDA’s HALO Pool Opens the Door to Non-Traditional PWSA Vendors

By Rachel Jewett

Thursday, October 24th, 2024

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SDA’s HALO Pool Opens the Door to Non-Traditional PWSA Vendors

SDA Director Derek Tournear speaking at MilSat Symposium on Oct. 23 hosted by SatNews. Screenshot

The Space Development Agency has selected 19 space companies to be a part of a hybrid acquisition pool known as HALO to compete for demonstrations for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) constellation. The HALO pool is a contracting vehicle that allows the SDA to solicit prototypes and experimentations from non-traditional space companies and then open the door for those companies to compete for mainline PWSA tranche contracts. The 19 companies selected are: Airbus U.S. Space & Defense; Apex Technology; AST Space Mobile; Astro Digital; Capella Space; CesiumAstro; Firefly Aerospace; Geneva…

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