Space Development Agency (SDA) Director Derek Tournear said on Apr. 14 that he views cyber and supply chain threats to the National Defense Space Architecture's (NDSA) Transport Layer as more significant ones than ground-based direct ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) and laser weapons. The NDSA will effectively be an optically-connected Internet in space to provide tactical data–low latency communications and targeting information–to military forces in the field. SDA believes that the projected hundreds of low-cost Transport Layer satellites--each less than $14 million--will…
