All.Space has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for its Hydra satcom terminal under a contract focused on increasing production rates in the U.S. defense supply chain.
The award announced Monday is an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) as part of the DIU’s Adaptive Space Manufacturing and Integration at Scale (10ⁿ) project. As a “disruptive innovator” in the program, All.Space will participate in a design-build-test and validate/qualify iterative process to support its space manufacturing readiness levels.
The goal of the program is to demonstrate “on-demand production rates capable of supporting hundreds of units per month and thousands per year,” All.Space said. The company did not share the specific value of the OTA.
All.Space COO Rod McCurdy noted the 10ⁿ looks to commercial technologies to address readiness and deployment challenges.
“Hydra was designed to deliver resilient connectivity across multiple networks and orbits, and this effort provides an opportunity to demonstrate how those capabilities can be delivered at the pace required by next-generation space and defense architectures,” McCurdy commented.
All.Space is now owned by York Space Systems and recently relocated its headquarters from the U.K. to the U.S., establishing a technical and manufacturing hub in Florence-Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The company said the move reflects its close alignment with the U.S. defense market.
