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Tactical Nodes, No Ground Terminal, for Umbra Contract with SDA

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While Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration Frank Calvelli has stressed the need to improve the ground systems segment of the U.S. Space Force's architecture, a Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) contract that a company announced on Tuesday may point to one better future. Umbra said that it has received a "multi-million dollar" SDA contract "to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating its commercial remote sensing capabilities into SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)." "This…

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