Definitive Contract HQ085021C0012

This $6,004,412 firm-fixed-price federal contract was awarded by the U.S. Air Force to Capella Space Corporation, a commercial space technology company, to provide a U.S. Commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) to support the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer Demonstration. The contract is part of SDA's efforts to develop the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA), a resilient military sensing and data transport capability in low-Earth orbit. Specifically, Capella Space will deliver commercial SAR imagery, data products, and related services to enable NDSA's Transport Layer, which provides assured, resilient, low-latency military data and communications worldwide. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. Capella Space holds multiple IDIQ contracts with NASA and the Air Force to rapidly procure its commercial SAR data and services, including the $476 million NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition IDIQ and the $950 million Air Force Joint All Domain Command and Control Support IDIQ.