{"id":31069,"date":"2019-06-21T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/21\/the-space-development-agencys-first-director-is-already-out\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:28:11","slug":"the-space-development-agencys-first-director-is-already-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2019\/06\/21\/the-space-development-agencys-first-director-is-already-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Space Development Agency\u2019s first director is already out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The director of the Space Development Agency has resigned after just over three months on the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Fred Kennedy has been serving on a detail from DARPA as the director of the Space Development Agency. He has stepped down from that role and is returning to DARPA. An acting director of SDA will be announced soon,\u201d said DoD spokeswoman Heather Babb in a statement to C4ISRNET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news was first reported by Breaking Defense June 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy was named the agency\u2019s first director when it was originally stood up by acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan March 12. At the time, Kennedy was serving as the current director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s Tactical Technology Office. He served prior to that as the senior policy adviser for national security space and aviation in the National Security and International Affairs Division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\t