The US Space Systems Command is seeking innovative technical approach concept papers addressing space and cyber technologies, to enable capabilities to counter emerging space threats.
Proposals should utilise technology with a TRL of 3 or higher.
Areas of Research Interest
- Resiliency technologies and techniques that increase survivability of space systems – eg proliferation strategies; commercial standards and multi-domain reuse; dataflows and information sharing; redundancies; rapid reconstitution.
- Improvements to space domain awareness (SDA) that enhance the knowledge of space objects, status, activities, threats and environment to enable courses of action – eg low cast and resilient ground-based SDA; low size, weight and power space-based SDA; ground/space space-weather sensors; optics.
- Innovative abilities to exploit space to its advantage for defensive and offensive counterspace to protect friendly space-related capabilities from attack – capability gap studies; cyber capabilities; phenomenology (active and passive); satellite servicing.
- Efficiencies that promote battle management command control and communications – eg space data analytic tools for large data sets and networks; AI and automation for space operations.
- Methods for advancing exercises, tests and training environment – eg ride share opportunities; innovative solutions across multiple domains; inter-satellite link for small satellites.
White papers will be accepted any time until 22 February 2029.
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