DIU Awards New Contracts to Build the 'Internet of Space' - MeriTalk

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) awarded 4 contracts connected Nov. 2 to assistance physique the “internet of space” and link crushed communications systems with divers outer networks.

The DIU’s Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) task aims to leverage caller commercialized abstraction systems to amended the velocity and interoperability of information communications – anyplace connected oregon disconnected Earth.

The bureau awarded contracts to SpiderOak Mission Systems, Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and Microsoft Azure Space to assistance successful this mission. Dollar amounts of the contracts were not disclosed.

“This task volition prosecute the goals of an agile and resilient communications architecture that volition beryllium capable to determination information done commercial, military, and allied assets portion integrating multi-domain unreality based retention and analytics,” said Rogan Shimmin, DIU programme manager for HSA. “It’s clip for the net to determination off-planet.”

The HSA volition link commercialized and authorities systems done links specified arsenic the electromagnetic vigor frequence spectrum, optical inter-satellite links, subject tactical information links, and bequest and aboriginal crushed conception wired networks.

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Jason Zander, enforcement vice president of strategical missions and technologies astatine Microsoft, explained successful a blog post that the HSA “is fundamentally DoD’s effort to physique an net successful abstraction and volition enactment the department’s extremity of establishing accusation vantage for nationalist security.”

In summation to its manufacture partners, the DIU is besides collaborating with the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Warfighting Analysis Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, and the USSF Space Systems Command connected this effort.

In July, the DIU besides announced 4 archetypal declaration awards for the task to companies Aalyria, Anduril, Atlas, and Enveil.

“Hybrid Space Architecture ventures into an experimental communications imaginativeness that connects users from astir the globe utilizing modern and aboriginal communications,” said Steve Butow, manager of DIU’s abstraction portfolio. “The further 4 awards from this solicitation supply caller capabilities portion seamlessly integrating into this dynamic and innovative corporate of accusation and networking infrastructure that volition supply resilient communications, and aboriginal technologies access, world-wide and beyond.”