DARPA, AFRL green-light Ball Aerospace for phase 2 of space-domain program
NewsMarch 20, 2019
BOULDER, Colo. Ball Aerospace will move forward on the Space Evaluation and Analysis Capability (SEAC) testbed for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Hallmark program, which aims to develop technologies that deliver real-time space-domain awareness informing command/control and protection of space assets.
Under the terms of the agreement, under the second phase Ball Aerospace will collaborate with a set of independent software-development teams and conduct three mock space-operations exercises to evaluate software-tool performance.
"Our revolutionary open architecture approach brings commercial capabilities and best practices like rapid integration of new services and secure DevOps to the Department of Defense," said Steve Smith, vice president and general manager, Systems Engineering Solutions, Ball Aerospace. "We look forward to continuing the successful demonstration of our enterprise software architecture's capabilities during the second phase of the Hallmark program."
