WASHINGTON ― The Space Rapid Capabilities Office (Space RCO), in partnership with the Space Force’s innovation arm SpaceWERX, has awarded three small companies contracts worth $3 million each to develop new radar warning receivers to equip future highly maneuverable satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO).
The awards to Assurance Technology Corporation, Raptor Dynamix and Innovative Signal Analysis, Inc. are being funded via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct-to-Phase II program, according to a Space RCO press release today.
The radar warning receivers “will detect and characterize emissions from ground-based radars” tracking Space Force satellites in GEO, thus improving the service’s space domain awareness capabilities, the release…
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