Bolstered by a $550 million boost in the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill, the Space Development Agency is poised to move forward with a solicitation tied to the second round of tracking layer satellites in the next week or two, a senior defense official said today. The solicitation, which SDA Director Derek Tournear told reporters at the end of February was ready to go pending the passage of a defense spending bill, will formally initiate the agency’s plans to launch...
