{"id":26768,"date":"2022-03-09T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/09\/proposed-space-development-agency-funding-boost-falls-short-of-earlier-request\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:59:39","slug":"proposed-space-development-agency-funding-boost-falls-short-of-earlier-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2022\/03\/09\/proposed-space-development-agency-funding-boost-falls-short-of-earlier-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Space Development Agency funding boost falls short of earlier request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency is poised for a $550 million funding boost in the compromise defense budget bill that would accelerate plans to provide a missile warning and tracking capability for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the increase is $200 million short of previous proposals, and it\u2019s not clear whether that reduction will require a change to the agency\u2019s plan to launch at least 28 wide- and medium-field-of-view satellites as part of its Tranche 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/09\/20\/space-development-agency-approves-design-for-satellites-that-can-track-hypersonic-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking Layer<\/a> (T1TL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20220307\/BILLS-117RCP35-JES-DIVISION-C_Part1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">joint explanatory statement<\/a> accompanying the bill, which was released Wednesday, doesn\u2019t offer details about the reduction and neither the committee nor SDA immediately responded to questions about how it might impact the agency\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate appropriators originally proposed a $750 million increase to SDA\u2019s $636 million fiscal 2022 budget request to accelerate development of the T1TL and meet INDOPACOM\u2019s missile tracking needs. SDA Director Derek Tournear told reporters last week the agency is ready to issue a solicitation, but has been waiting for lawmakers to pass an appropriations bill before moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf that mark holds and we get the funding, then we will start that Tracking Tranche 1, which means we are essentially holding and ready to release our tracking solicitation as soon as there\u2019s an appropriations act,\u201d Tournear said during a Defense Writers Group event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SDA issued a draft solicitation for <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/856de89889c847b985709a980634d044\/view\" target=\"_blank\">T1TL satellites<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tournear noted that if the additional Tranche 1 tracking funding comes through, the agency will wait to issue a request for proposals for its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System \u2014 a separate effort aimed at prototyping new capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are very concerned with the bandwidth of our industrial performer base as well as our internal SDA bandwidth, so we\u2019re not going to release both of those solicitations at the same time,\u201d he said. \u201cWe would stagger those.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The satellites will operate from low Earth orbit and carry overhead persistent infrared sensors, providing key space-based missile tracking capabilities. The tracking satellites are part of the Space Development Agency\u2019s broader National Defense Space Architecture, which will consist of hundreds of satellites, primarily operating in LEO. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SDA plans to launch its first batch of satellites, Tranche 0, later this year. Tranche 1 will expand on that capability with technology enhancements and expanded coverage and is intended to represent the NDSA\u2019s initial warfighting capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2020\/10\/05\/space-development-agency-orders-8-hypersonic-weapon-tracking-satellites\/\" target=\"_blank\">SDA awarded contracts<\/a> to L3Harris and SpaceX to develop the Tranche 0 Tracking Layer satellites. Under those contracts \u2014 L3Harris received $193 million and SpaceX $149 million \u2014 both companies are developing four wide-field-of-view space vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the Missile Defense Agency is developing medium-field-of-view satellites through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/01\/25\/missile-defense-agency-picks-two-vendors-for-hypersonic-weapon-tracking-sensor-prototypes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor<\/a> program, which will be part of the tracking layer. The agency awarded contracts early last year to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman to develop prototypes for HBTSS. 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