ADVANCED RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT (ARA) TITLE: CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSESSMENT FOR SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS (SDA)
This Advanced Research Announcement (ARA) from the Air Force Research Laboratory seeks research for technologies supporting Space Domain Awareness and Space Superiority, including intelligent data tasking and high-performance computational analysis. The total funding for this now-closed program was approximately $99 million, with individual awards typically ranging from $1M to $10M and lasting up to 48 months. The performance location for the agency contacts is Rome, New York. The announcement was an open, two-step process where only white papers were accepted as initial submissions, with formal proposals by invitation only. The ARA has been canceled and is no longer accepting submissions.