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Cool new DARPA RFI out called "Rapid Reconstitution of Space Capabilities." Looking for solutions around 20 areas. SAM link in comments.
- Spacecraft modularity and scalability
- Plug-and-play components and interoperability
- Rapid satellite manufacturing and assembly, both ground-based and on-orbit
- Reconfigurable / software-defined satellites / virtualization
- Multifunctional/multirole satellites
- Radiation-hardened electronics and systems
- Technologies for operation in very low earth orbit (VLEO)
- Spacecraft survivability and resiliency
- Bus and payload components and technologies enabling rapid reconstitution
- Metamaterial electronically steered arrays
- Cost-effective spacecraft to enable large-scale constellations
- Operational concepts and strategies
- Alternative PNT
- Payload sensors
- Coherently distributed apertures
- Launch vehicle payload integration
- Design considerations and relevant trade spaces for rapid and flexible production
- Supply chain optimization for launch and space vehicle production
- Bottlenecks impacting reconstitution of satellite busses, payloads, launch vehicles, and
integration components
- Priorities for reconstitution of space and launch vehicles (system type and quantity)