The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is calling for industry input into a software development effort known as Pit Boss, which will demonstrate space-based autonomous command-and-control and data processing to support the agency's highly watched Blackjack program. The new broad agency announcement seeks companies to propose Pit Boss solutions that take advantage of new command-and-control, health monitoring and remediation, inter- and intra-satellite data management, and on-orbit resource scheduling technology. Blackjack program manager Paul Thomas told Inside Defense in November...
