SDA releases first RFI, plans industry day for late July

By Courtney Albon / July 5, 2019 at 11:31 AM
The Space Development Agency has issued its first request for information, calling on industry to propose concepts for "an agile, responsive" next-generation space architecture. The July 1 RFI comes on the heels of former SDA Director Fred Kennedy's sudden resignation from the agency on June 19. Kennedy and his boss, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin, disagreed on the degree to which the new organization should leverage commercial space investments as part of a new proliferated,...

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