SDA Tranche 0 Transport Layer SDA Overview.pdf

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Transport Tranche 0 Virtual Industry Day 2 April 2020

Dr. Derek Tournear Director, SDA

OUSD (R&E)

SDA Overview

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Innovator’s Dilemma

“That’s one of the reasons, frankly, we stood up SDA, is to…break out of the conventional system and find different, more creative ways to field our capabilities.”

-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper before the House Armed Services Committee, Feb. 26, 2020

NTS-3 - example of what comes out of an Innovation Office in industry.

The L3Harris Innovation office was completely fenced from P&L oversight

How we all fit together

Technology Demonstration for Military Utility

Architecture Demonstration for Military Utility

Space Development Agency Overview

Resilient military sensing and low-latency data transport by means of a proliferated low-earth space architecture

Defining and monitoring the Department’s future, threat-driven space architecture and accelerating the development and fielding of next-generation space capabilities

TIME-SENSITIVE

GROUND & MARITIME

TARGETS

HYPERSONIC & ADVANCED

MISSILE THREATS

THREAT-DRIVEN TO DELIVER CAPABILITIES TO

WARFIGHTER AT THE SPEED OF RELEVANCE

LEVERAGE PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN DOD AND

COMMERCIAL TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS

IMPROVED RESILIENCY AND RESPONSIVENESS

THROUGH PROLIFERATION

AGILE DEVELOPMENT AND FIELDING –

CAPABILITIES IN TWO-YEAR TRANCHES

SDA will orchestrate the development and fielding of the future National Defense Space Architecture

• Integrated architecture

• Multiple constellations or architecture “layers”

• Each layer addresses a critical, unmet gap in the national security space enterprise

• Predicated on a global, persistent, low-latency data and communications “mesh network”

• Leverages industry best practices and commercial development models

• Considering the use of transport layer spacecraft as substrates for other layers

• Proliferated, distributed approach enables resiliency (to direct threats) and responsiveness (to emerging terrestrial threats)

Notional Architecture

Capability Baseline

NDSA Layer Risk Reduction Demo (FY20-21) Tranche 0 Capability (FY22) Tranche 1 Capability (FY24)

Transport Demonstrate very low latency data transport, to include optical satellite crosslink and direct downlink

Periodic regional access low-latency data connectivity

Persistent regional access low-latency data connectivity

Battle Management • Begin development of HITL/SITL

• Flight HW/SW for mesh networking

• C2 messages to BMDS C2BMC

• BLOS targeting support over TDL

Provide data over legacy TDL for 90% of fielded weapon systems

Tracking Flight experiment to collect WFOV data in wavebands of interest at LEO

Periodic regional access for detection of HGVs

Persistent regional access for detection of HGVs

Custody Demonstrate multi-phenomenology, on-orbit sensor fusion

Periodic regional access with multiple sensing types through mission partner contribution

Persistent regional access with multiple sensing types through mission partner contribution

Navigation Demonstrate dissemination of PNT information over TDL

Periodic regional access of alternate PNT

Persistent regional access of alternate PNT

Deterrence Demonstrate relevant sensitivities and processing

Periodic access of cislunar volume for object detection

Periodic access of cislunar volume for object detection

Support Launch and operate demo and experiment satellites

• Launch initial tranche of satellites

• Demonstrate scalable satellite operations

Launch, operate, and transition capabilities

NDSA

Layer

Refine

FY 19

Risk Reduction

FY 20-21

Tranche 0

FY 20 - 22

Tranche 1

FY 22 - 24

Tranche N +1

FY 20+

Transport National Defense Space Arch.

(NDSA)

Request for Info.

(RFI)

SDA-SN-

19-0001

Aug

Transport Crosslink Demo RFI

(SDA-SN-20-0004)

• OISL RFI (SDA-SN-20-0001)

• Networking RFI (SDA-SN-20-0002)

• Solicitation anticipated Spring 2020

Solicitation anticipated late FY 2022

NDSA

Systems, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities

(STEC)

Agency-wide Broad Area Announcement

(BAA)

Battle Mgmt Ideas welcome – STEC BAA Solicitation anticipated FY 2020 Solicitation anticipated late FY 2022

Tracking Solicitation anticipated Spring 2020 Solicitation anticipated FY 2020 Solicitation anticipated late FY 2022

Custody Data Fusion RFI (SDA-SN-20-0007) Solicitation anticipated FY 2020 Solicitation anticipated late FY 2022

Navigation Ideas welcome – STEC BAA Solicitation anticipated FY 2020 Solicitation anticipated late FY 2022

Deterrence Ideas welcome – STEC BAA No solicitation planned at this time No solicitation planned at this time

Support Ideas welcome – STEC BAA Solicitation anticipated FY 2020 Solicitation anticipated late FY 2022

Working with SDA

Find additional info about these and future activities:

https://www.SDA.mil

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