SDA pauses Tranche 3 solicitation amid budget uncertainty

By Shelley K. Mesch / April 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 29 with a statement from the Space Development Agency. The Space Development Agency won’t release the solicitation for its Tranche 3 Transport Layer Upsilon variant this month as planned, the agency announced Friday, delaying the program “until SDA receives further budgetary guidance.” Part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, SDA had posted the draft proposal request in January to begin seeking feedback from industry for the first T3TL variant. SDA had...

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