DARPA Seeks Information On Low-Earth Orbit Space Object Detection

By Jordana Mishory / December 26, 2013 at 1:22 PM
In a bid to help enable “revolutionary advances” in space domain awareness, the Pentagon's advanced research arm is soliciting information from industry to help build and deploy sensors to detect low-inclined low-Earth orbit objects, according to a new notice. In the Dec. 13 notice posted on Federal Business Opportunities, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency calls for industry to submit white papers to “design, develop and deploy sensors capable of uncued low-inclined [low-Earth orbit] detection, enabling indications and warnings relevant...

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