The Pentagon's Space Development Agency (SDA) is set to be disbanded and folded back into the Space Force's procurement pipeline after seven years, despite recent successes in launching initial satellite batches. Lawmakers support this closure as part of an effort to streamline weapons buying, though the SDA's core mission of deploying the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture for missile tracking will continue under the Space Force.
Background
The Space Development Agency was created in 2019 to accelerate military space capabilities by bypassing traditional bureaucratic hurdles, focusing on a large constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites for missile defense.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Jul 18, 2026 at 03:19 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10