{"id":180311,"date":"2024-01-11T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/space-force-to-award-multiple-contracts-for-digital-spaceport-up-to-1-9-million-each"},"modified":"2024-01-11T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:23:33","slug":"space-force-to-award-multiple-contracts-for-digital-spaceport-up-to-1-9-million-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/space-force-to-award-multiple-contracts-for-digital-spaceport-up-to-1-9-million-each","title":{"rendered":"Space Force to award multiple contracts for \u2018Digital Spaceport\u2019 up to $1.9 million each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-to-award-multiple-contracts-for-digital-spaceport-up-to-1-9-million-each2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the U.S. Space Force, is looking to award a new round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodsbirsttr.mil\/submissions\/login\">Small Business Innovation Research contracts<\/a> worth up to $1.9 million each for IT infrastructure upgrades at the Eastern and Western launch ranges.<\/p>\n<p>The project known as <a href=\"https:\/\/afwerxchallenge.com\/spacewerx26\/digital-spaceport-of-the-future\">Digital Spaceport of the Future<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-force-seeking-a-digital-overhaul-of-its-aging-launch-infrastructure\/\">announced earlier this month<\/a>. SpaceWERX officials on Jan. 10 said launch ranges are in dire need of IT upgrades and are seeking proposals from the private sector by February 7.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Jareth Lamb, deputy director of SpaceWERX, said during a briefing that the contracts will be \u201cdirect to Phase 2\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2023\/Nov\/28\/2003348086\/-1\/-1\/0\/AF_SBIR_241_DP2_v2.PDF\">SBIR\/STTR<\/a> agreements. These are Small Business Innovation Research\/Small Business Technology Transfer deals that require collaboration between small businesses and non-profit research institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the U.S. Space Force, is looking to award a new round of Small Business Innovation Research contracts worth up to $1.9 million each for IT infrastructure upgrades at the Eastern and Western launch ranges. The project known as Digital Spaceport of the Future was announced earlier this month. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}