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Space Development Agency Moving Ahead with Stand-Up Efforts During CR

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

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Space Development Agency Moving Ahead with Stand-Up Efforts During CR

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

The Pentagon’s relatively new Space Development Agency (SDA) is continuing its planned efforts related to building new space-based sensor layers over the next five years as Congress works through fiscal year 2020 funding under the current FY ’19 continuing resolution, the agency’s acting director said Oct. 16. If the CR extends past its scheduled deadline of Nov. 21 and into the new year, the SDA could feel the pinch of insufficient funding, Derek Tournear told reporters at the Association for…

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