Space industry analyst Todd Harrison said the $3.1 billion purchase is latest in a "shakeup" in the satellite communications landscape following the proliferation of LEO birds.
Among the unclassified programs listed, the Space Force could use an additional $160 million to establish a "working capital fund" to be used for purchasing commercial satellite communications.
The effort, called Space Test Experiments Platform 2.0 (STEP 2.0), aims to set up a consortium of providers who have flight-proven buses via an indefinite delivery/indefinite quality (ID/IQ) contract, Lt. Col. Jonathan Shea, STP director, said Monday.
PRINCETON, New Jersey. SciTec Inc. has won a $45.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force for continued development of a ground system framework responsible for collecting and processing data gathered by satellites for missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness, and technical intelligence, the company announced in a statement.