The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to 12 companies for the Hybrid Space Architecture, or HSA, project, designed to create a unified integrated architecture by combining commercial, civil and military space assets.
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Enhancing Warfighter Situational Awareness Capabilities
The DIU said Monday the project intends to provide warfighters with asymmetric awareness and enhanced decision-making capabilities at the tactical edge, giving them an advantage against rapidly evolving threats. The HSA network aims to utilize multi-path routing to bolster network resilience against disruptions, providing secure and agile communications during military missions.
The project will fuse commercial persistent sensing, data fusion, edge computing and resilient data transport capabilities to boost real-time information access. The DIU collaborated with the U.S. combatant commands to identify operational needs, prototype software architectures and map out pathways for adoption.
DIU Leveraging Strategic Partnerships
The awardees include Capella Space, EdgeCortix, Eutelsat America Corp. + OneWeb Technologies, Fairwinds Technologies – AST Space Mobile, Illumina Computing Group, Lockheed Martin Space, MapLarge, SES Government Solutions, Skycorp, SkyFi, Ursa Space Systems and Viasat. They will start conducting prototype demonstrations across the Indo-Pacific, European, Central and South Commands in summer 2025.
The 12 companies will join current HSA performers, including Aalyria Technologies, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Kuiper, Anduril, Astranis Space, ATLAS Space Operations, Enveil, Google, Palantir, Planet Labs Federal, Microsoft and SpiderOak.
The HSA team will also activate a live hybrid network for demos, exercises and tactics integration. These demonstrations will help boost the progress of the HSA project, which aims to lay the technical and programmatic foundation for an operational hybrid commercial and government space architecture by 2026.
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