Overview
- Space Systems Command, which announced the awards Tuesday, issued $615 million in second‑round SB‑AMTI task orders to three firms to develop space-based sensors for tracking fast-moving airborne targets.
- Rocket Lab said it received $397 million to build, launch and operate multiple Flatellites and that it plans to use its Neutron rocket and secure ground facilities to deliver tracking data to the Space Force.
- Systems & Technology Research was named as a recipient but SSC did not disclose STR’s specific technical role in the work.
- SSC withheld the identity of the third awardee for operational security, saying the decision protects sensitive mission profiles and capabilities.
- The package follows a multi‑billion dollar SpaceX award that set the AMTI baseline and signals a shift to supplier diversity and commercial, vertically integrated solutions even as deployment timing depends on Neutron and other integration work.