Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Rapid Reconstitution of Space Capabilities
Deadline: 08 Jul 2026
Posting Date: 13 Jun 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 143236440
Document Ref. No.: DARPA-SN-26-42
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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The United States leverages space assets and the services they provide for economic prosperity, weather forecasting, scientific discovery, critical infrastructure, and national security. Conversely, other nations seek to position themselves as leading space powers while undermining the stability and tranquility that allows space to benefit all nations. Some U.S. competitors are implementing a sustained effort to develop a broad range of offensive counterspace capabilities through a variety of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, including direct attacks on satellites, jamming and spoofing of signals, and continued cyberattacks on satellite and ground infrastructure. Use of these weapons could have serious consequences for all nations that benefit from space-based systems. Space is an increasingly contested environment, presenting a multitude of threats to U.S. space assets. Adversarial attacks could impact strategic capabilities such as those that support communications, position navigation and timing (PNT), and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Therefore, there is a strategic need to be able to quickly respond to disrupted assets and reconstitute degraded space capabilities. To address this dynamic threat environment, the U.S. Space Force and the Department of War (DoW) have sought the ability to rapidly deploy and operate space-based assets in response to immediate, urgent, and often unforeseen tactical needs. In a milestone toward achieving tactically responsive space (TacRS), the 2023 Victus Nox mission launched its space vehicle a mere 27 hours after the order came, beating the previous record for responsive space launch by more than two weeks. Likewise, Space Systems Command-s (SSC) Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) is augmenting space-based capacity during a crisis or conflict by establishing contracts with commercial space companies. CASR is one of multiple ways the DoW is ensuring that the web of satellites it can draw upon is so gr...
Notice ID: darpa-sn-26-42
Department/Ind. Agency: dept of defense
Sub-tier: defense advanced research projects agency (darpa)
Office: def advanced research projects agcy
Product Service Code: ac13 - national defense r&d services; department of defense - military; experimental development
NAICS Code: 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
Inactive Dates: jul 09, 2026
Inactive Policy: manual
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