Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience
The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.
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The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for in FY22, with much of it going towards R&D efforts.
The Space Development Agency intends to issue a solicitation for 28 "Tranche 1 Tracking Layer" satellites within the next two weeks, a senior official said, with an eye on making awards to two vendors.
A decision about whether to go forward this year with Tracking Layer Tranche 1 or wait until fiscal 2023 funds are available could happen "within the next few weeks," said SDA Director Derek Tournear.
On-board, or "edge," processing is key to SDA's plans to develop a satellite network that can gather data from multiple sensors on the ground, at sea and in space to provide operators with precise, near-real-time targeting information.
German optical communication technologies company Tesat-Spacecom (Tesat) is expanding its footprint into the United States to provide optical