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Executive Moves/News
Derek Tournear Named Acting Director at Space Dev’t Agency

Derek Tournear, formerly assistant director for space at the Department of Defense, has been named acting director of the Space Development Agency, Air Force Magazine reported Tuesday. Tournear will manage the agency's

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by Matthew Nelson
June 26, 2019
Executive Moves/News
Fred Kennedy Steps Down as Space Dev’t Agency Director

Fred Kennedy, director of the Space Development Agency, formally submitted his intent to resign from the position, Space News reported Friday. Kennedy, previously the director of the tactical technology office within the Defense

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by Brenda Marie Rivers
June 24, 2019
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Space Development Agency Prefers Leased Satellite Services for Future Network

Fred Kennedy, director of Space Development Agency, wants to lease commercial services to support the agency’s proposed satellite network in low-Earth orbit, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. “I would be very happy to

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by Darwin McDaniel
June 17, 2019
News
Congress Showing Support for New Space Development Agency

Fred Kennedy, director of Space Development Agency, said that lawmakers are showing interest in supporting the newly-established agency, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The Pentagon stood up SDA to help utilize commercial technologies to accelerate

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by Darwin McDaniel
June 12, 2019
Executive Moves/News
Mike Leahy to Lead DARPA’s Tactical Tech Office

Mike Leahy, a former executive at Northrop Grumman, will serve as head of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s tactical technology office, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. DARPA Director and a 2019 Wash100 winner Steven Walker told

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by Jane Edwards
May 2, 2019
News
Space Dev’t Agency Plans to Issue Smallsat Capabilities RFI Ahead of 2022 Launch

The Department of Defense’s recently established Space Development Agency is slated to release a request for information on low Earth orbit small satellite capabilities by summer of this year, Space News reported

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by Brenda Marie Rivers
April 11, 2019
News
Space Development Agency Seeks to Change Space Acquisition Process

Fred Kennedy, director of the Space Development Agency, told SpaceNews in an interview published Monday about the agency's plans to transform how the military builds and procures space systems.

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by Jane Edwards
April 9, 2019
Government Technology/News
Report: DoD Launches Space Development Agency

Acting Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 Award winner Patrick Shanahan officially unveiled the new space development agency, CNN reported Wednesday. Fred Kennedy, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s tactical technology

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by Jane Edwards
March 14, 2019
News
Report: Michael Griffin’s Office to Oversee Space Development Agency

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has issued a memo directing Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, to submit by March 1 a plan to establish a new space development agency, SpaceNews

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by Jane Edwards
January 24, 2019
News
DARPA to Help DoD Stand New Space Development Agency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been tasked with providing recommendations to the Pentagon for establishing a proposed agency that would lead efforts to build and acquire space technologies for the military, Space

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by Darwin McDaniel
December 14, 2018
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