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Pentagon awards $1.3 billion in contracts to Northrop Grumman and York for 100 satellites
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/30/pentagon-awards-satellite-contracts-to-northrop-grumman-york.html
> The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency on Monday announced about $1.3 billion in contracts to York Space and Northrop Grumman to build communications satellites.
>The SDA is having the pair of companies build 100 satellites as part of a network the U.S. military is building called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. These satellites will be for “Alpha” variant prototypes in the “Tranche 2 Transport Layer” constellation, also known as T2TL-Alpha, to provide encrypted communications.
> Under the T2TL-Alpha awards, Northrop will build 38 “data transport” satellites for $732 million, while York will build 62 satellites for $617 million. The SDA’s schedule is for the T2TL satellites to begin launching in 2026.