Companies selected to start events with key mission partners in the summer of 2025
May 12, 2025 – Mountain View, CA – The American army requires an accelerated integration of commercial space technologies to stay ahead of rapid evolution threats. In order to provide secure, resilient and agile communications for military operations, the hybrid spatial architecture project (HSA) of the Defense Unit (DIU) aims to integrate civil, commercial and military space assets into integrated architecture to provide Warfighter with asymmetrical awareness and improved decision -making. The HSA network has the potential to increase network resilience using a multi-chemin routing of communications to optimize data transport and mitigate the negative effects caused by weather conditions or other obstructions. HSA seeks to integrate persistent commercial detection, data fusion, high performance edges calculation and resilient data transport capacities to considerably improve access to information in real time.
Diu has joined forces closely with American fighter to assess operational needs, prototype software architectures and effective transition channels. The Agile Acquisition Acquisition Authorities allow commercial companies to integrate, test, validate and quickly iterate improvements that will ensure the technological relevance of HSA over time. Collectively, this project builds the technical and programmatic basis to pilot a commercial and government operational commercial and government architecture by 2026.
“DIU’s approach has enabled TACSRT to quickly set up several commercial suppliers, explaining their inherent agility and innovation. This accelerated integration route allows us to achieve essential automation and scalability than traditional acquisition processes.” said the office of the SSC Tacsrt program
To prototyper these capacities, Diu recently awarded new contracts to Capella Space Corporation, Edgecortix, Eutelsat America Corp. + Oneweb Technologies, Fairwinds Technologies – AST Space Mobile, Illumina Computing Group, Lockheed Martin Space, Maplag, its Solutions Government, Skycorp Incorporated, Skyfi, Ursa Space Systems and Viasat. Existing HSA interpreters Include Aalyria Technologies, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Kuiper, Andundil, Astranis Space, Atlas Space Operations, Angelle, Google, Palant, Planet Labs Federal, Microsoft and Spideroak.
“This is a winning collaboration between Diu, SSC and the commercial space industry to advance hybrid space architecture (HSA) for US Space Force,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Tim Trimao, director of the Space Systems Command sales office. “In collaboration with DIU, we accelerate the integration of commercial capacities thanks to HSA demonstrations and pilot efforts to quickly move into resilient and multi-orbit architecture supporting the vision of DOD for flawless and uninterrupted global communications.
During the next year, these commercial suppliers will protect their capacities through a series of operational demonstrations in areas of Indo-Pacific, European, Central and South responsibility. In addition, the HSA project team will soon activate a live hybrid network for demonstrations, support for the exercise and the additional integration of tactics and the capacity to combat war. The success with these events will be similar to the department to achieve an operational, resilient and hybrid spatial architecture.
“DIU’s ability to integrate quickly and to provide a hybrid space network architecture testifies to its process to allow commercial innovators to solve complex and scale problems by applying their solutions to DOD problems,” said Steve Butow, Director of the DIU space portfolio.
The other partners participating in the HSA project include Space Warfight Analysis Center, Space Systems Command, Air Force Research Laboratory Rapid Architecture Integration Development Division, Strategic Capacities Office, The Naval Research Laboratory, Special Operations Command, Jiatf-South, Usar 310th Space Wing, Marine Corps Tactical Systems Activity Activity and other American government agencies.
“Working in close collaboration with DIU is essential to provide commercially strength commercial options and overcome challenges to integrate these capacities into our architectures. We are committed to continuing this work, “said Dr. Michael Starks, a quick prototyping laboratory and the demonstration of integration, US Air Force Research Laboratory.
The HSA project clearly shows that the more strategic the problem, the more the type of commercial technology is integrated to quickly approach the solution. To help solve this problem and achieve the objectives of this project, Cyber and IA AI teams also coordinate on this effort.